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Director of Linux Foundation IT. Currently in charge of kernel.org infra.

This account is for Linux/Kernel/FOSS topics in general: #linux, #kernel, #foss, #git, #sysadmin, #infrastructure.

For my personal account, please follow @monsieuricon@castoranxieux.ca.

Montréal, Québec, Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦
Wayland terminal poll-off:
13% kitty
37% foot
48% other
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Oh no, not a missing CAA record! 😱
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Oh, no. The word "fan" is actually just short for "fancier."

Are you a sports fancier?
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Me: "creates a brand new 70TB RAID6 array"
RAID6: "pls wait while I spend 2 days sync'ing (checks) these 0 bytes of data across all these disks"
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them: "Your domain's SPF record has ~all instead of -all, this is a critical vulnerability."
me: "No, it's not, it's configured that way for a reason."
them: "Can I get a bounty for reporting this critical vulnerability?"
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1000 days since the Russian army invaded Ukraine, destroying its cities and murdering civilians, all because Putin needed a "quick victorious war" to remain in power.

I will never forget, and I will never forgive.
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I just found out that "scout" in Norsk is "speider," so I'm officially a Speider Mann.
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Guilty pleasure: chefreactions on instagram. blobcatchefskiss
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Akkoma has been unwedged.
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Sir... Uh... that's not how kernel fencing works.
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Tired: Red States
Wired: Hold My Beer States
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(Reading the news)

Didn't know Tide pods came in orange.
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OK, so I ended up moving www.kernel.org to be served via Fastly and it's working well. I will probably move it back once we figure out what this okhttp traffic is.
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Jeg er veldig smart.

Don't ask me why I'm learning Norsk, it's a secret, but my Duo username may give a hint.
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x.x.x.x - - [10/Nov/2024:00:02:37 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 162 "-" "okhttp/4.9.0"

You know what’s interesting about this log line? It repeats 56,686,963 times in www.kernel.org logs for yesterday, across 4 nodes. That’s about 700 times a second, and this has been going on for months.

These requests aren’t intentionally malicious – they issue a simple GET /, receive their 301 redirect, and terminate the connection. From what I can tell, this is some kind of appliance or software installed on mobile clients that uses “can I reach www.kernel.org” as a network test.

This wouldn’t be that big of a deal – a single plaintext “GET /“ that triggers an immediate 301 is very cheap for us to generate, but the number of these requests has been steadily growing.

If you have any idea what this is and how to make it stop, please reach out?

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Update to Fedora-41 was completely uneventful.
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Not now honey. Daddy's checking to see if anyone liked the stupid joke he posted on the internet.

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So, if mirrors.kernel.org went away...
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The good news, they just keep a-coming, eh.

I guess we'll need to find a new home for kernel.org frontends by 2026.
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