School Sysadmin

This blog follows my exploits as a one time Network Architect / Systems Administrator / IT Manager at a university in South Africa. When you've RTFMd, and it didn't help, WABM!

Sunday, 5 July 2020

Dunning-Kruger and Learning

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I can't imagine you've never heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect - it is a popular and well known model of actual expertise vs. perce...
Wednesday, 25 March 2020

Tune your home network for Work-from-Home / Quarantine / Isolation - "Un-Suck your Wi-Fi"!

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I can't authoritatively comment on COVID-19, despite a lot of years in the biological sciences, even some microbiology and a long term, ...
Thursday, 27 February 2020

Funemployment

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My wife and I recently moved continents, and I have now joined the ranks of the funemployed, because (for our family) moving was more import...
Saturday, 1 February 2020

Trust Boundaries and Reliable Backups: Ransomware Edition

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A network whose administrators I know quite well has been thoroughly compromised and critical files encrypted, and much configuration destro...
Friday, 17 January 2020

Happy Eyeballs. Unhappy user.

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As part of the migration efforts to IPv6, many programs implement a system known as " happy eyeballs ". The basic premise is that ...
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Tuesday, 3 December 2019

Port Mirroring in Junos

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So sometimes, the manual isn't quite detailed enough... At the moment, our telephony people are having some issues with various things...
Wednesday, 23 October 2019

Glitchy RPKI OV and uRPF: one hell of a match

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I've previously written about RPKI and mentioned some of the glitches . It looks like there are some other fun interactions to be had if...
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