[Dxspider-support] [sysops] Temp Files..

[Howard Leadmon]

   Hey Joe, I have to say, nothing against CentOS at all here, I just 
loaded up a server with a boatload of RAM and a couple dozen cores to 
run CentOS 8, as I needed a server to run some VM's, so I am a fan as 
well.   I like FreeBSD, I like Ubuntu/Debian as well, so pretty much if 
it's Unix based I'm a fan, and have probably used it at some point in 
time.  I also do a lot with VoIP as well, and have designed some very 
large PBX's for a few companies over the years.

  As to my node being very stable, thanks, and it was very much designed 
from day 1 to be a stable hub for people to connect with, and it's nice 
to hear that it's been serving that purpose well.   I run a good sized 
network with bunches of 10GigE fiber links, for lots of redundancy, as 
well as peering relationships with a lot of the large players like 
Msoft, Google, Apple and so on.  I figured that since I had the 
resources available, I would put in a decent server with redundancy, and 
place it in the DX network, which is what WB3FFV-2 is at this time.   I 
also really wanted to try and promote IPv6 adoption, and with the help 
of Dirk and others a few years back, made sure that we fully supported 
and tried to connect with any other IPv6 nodes.   I know a few ran 
tunnel-broker links to get on IPv6, but I have made sure for many years 
that we are true dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 compliant, and it's really worked 
out well, so I am a fan of migration to IPv6.  As it is a sizable server 
(not a RasPi), for sure anyone that desires a link has never been turned 
down thus far, and hopefully soon I will take it down for a few hours to 
move to Dirk's new MoJo code, as it seems like it should be well suited 
to this environment.

  The node is actually on a standalone server (not a VM, granted I am 
sure it could be), and at the time it was built, I just felt that 
FreeBSD was probably the best, and most stable environment.   As things 
are currently, if I rebuilt the server for DXspider again, I probably 
would go with either CentOS or Ubuntu, as I have just gotten very used 
to their layouts.  I think my biggest attraction to FBSD was ZFS, and 
hey with any luck it seems Ubuntu will probably support it in the 
installer with the next LTS release.

  I guess enough computer/network geekdom for now, but thanks for hoping 
on and the kudos gave me a smile..


73's de WB3FFV


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Howard Leadmon - howard at leadmon.net
PBW Communications, LLC
http://www.pbwcomm.com

On 10/7/2019 7:45 PM, Joe Reed wrote:
> Howard and Dirk,
>
> That was an extremely interesting thread.  Not wishing to ignite any religious wars but I will disclose I am a CentOS user (going back to my VoIP days) and don’t have the issue. All the same, a very interesting and informative discussion.  And now as Paul Harvey would say “That’s the rest of the story.”.  Howard, as a node partner we often go months without a disconnect.  And I always wondered why.  Now I know.
>
> Joe Reed
> joe at n9jr.com
>
>
>
>> On Oct 7, 2019, at 5:22 PM, Howard Leadmon via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
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>>    Hello Dirk,
>>
>>   Two things, first I looked and dma is not even an installed package, not sure if something carried around from an older box, but just very strange.  At the same time, if I do a man on dma, I sure get a page on it, but can't just remove the package.
>>