Some Place for Me - Articles by Bastian Blank

Almost all existing documentation tells me how to setup Ceph with one or two layers of abstration. This entry shows how to set it up by hand without needing root permissions.

Linux includes a syscall filter since a long time. It was restricted to a pre-defined set of syscalls. Since some versions Linux got a more generic filter.

Linux can use a BPF-filter to define actions for syscalls. This allows a fine granular specification on which syscalls to act. Also it …

For some, LDAP, just like X.500, is black magic. I won't argue against. Sometimes it really shows surprising behavior. It always makes sense, if you think about what LDAP is built for. One surprising behavior is the handling of the "Insignificant Space"

LDAP supports syntax and comparator methods. The …

I use UUCP to get my mails. It works fine but lacks support for modern SMTP features like DSN. While it may be possible to bolt support into the the rmail part, both the sendmail interface used to submit mails and the Postfix pipe daemon used to extract mail are …

I still prefer to handle all my mails at home. I got backup set-up on my own and have anything in direct access. This network is connected to the internet via an end-user DSL connection without a static IP-address and without any useful SLA. However relaying mails over such an …

Today I found out that the DNS-Server at home is used for a DDoS against a DNS-Server. The attackers send a small query, "ripe.net ANY" in this case, with a faked sender IP. The DNS-Server answers with a much larger packet to the (faked) sender.

Because the domain is …

I installed a Lenovo Thinkpad X130e with Wheezy.

AoE is one of the protocols supported by Linux to access storage via network. It uses plain Ethernet for communication and includes a discovery mechanism to find all available targets. I use it to provide disk space to VMs running on different machines.

Next step is to boot via AoE …