local dns caching on a webserver

2014-06-29 Thread Roland RoLaNd
Hello, I have a very busy webserver running apache2 checking /proc/net/ip_conntrack and filtering port 53 i noticed that i have around 50 000 dns query in under 200 second. destinations are by order:- memcache cluster- database- external web services I can't add these in my /etc/hosts file as

failure to boot - initramfs

2014-04-20 Thread Roland RoLaNd
Dear all, on boot, the system falls back into INITRAMFS , something to do with the failed iscsi disks and if i don't type anything,a log starts showing containing SYNC_DISK... among other things.. if i hit enter, it stops and i get back to the INITRAMFS prompt. support technicians in a remote

prepend localdns to resolv.conf - keeps changing

2014-03-28 Thread Roland RoLaNd
All, I installed dnsmasq on a production web server to improve caching (we tend to resolve alot of domains while serving pages) my problem is that we have to use dhcp with the server, so cannot use static ips.with that in mind, the dhcpd client keeps overriding my resolv.conf i can't lock the

php 5.2 on debian wheezy

2013-11-23 Thread Roland RoLaNd
All, An application we're using is in need for php5.2 and we lack the time to make it work with the latest version. google search shows a lot of 5.3 to 5.2 downgrade for squeeze but not for wheezy naturally. May i ask if anyone has done so recently, and if you could provide a how to? Thanks

sysctl.conf

2013-10-26 Thread Roland RoLaNd
All, I'm reading up on how to harden debian.i just checked /etc/sysctl.conf and noticed that everything is commented out.do that mean they're running as defaults or none of what exists in this file is implemented?

RE: sysctl.conf

2013-10-26 Thread Roland RoLaNd
) 44 #net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_redirects = 0 45 #net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_redirects = 0 Subject: Re: sysctl.conf From: ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 21:58:59 +0200 On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 21:37 +0200, Roland RoLaNd wrote: All, I'm

RE: Debian wheezy boot problem - Boot sector not identified by board

2013-10-08 Thread Roland RoLaNd
for future reference if anyone faced this issue.disabling EFI in bios settings and initiating a clean install does the trick. From: r_o_l_a_...@hotmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Debian wheezy boot problem - Boot sector not identified by board Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 09:54:11

Debian wheezy boot problem - Boot sector not identified by board

2013-10-07 Thread Roland RoLaNd
All, I have an intel dh77kc board. it previously had windows 7 installed on it.i tried installing debian wheezy net install. installation goes perfectly fine up untill reboot.once reboot is done, i get Initializing and establishing link and immediately goes into network bootI tried resetting

mysql-server 64 bit on a 32 bit lenny

2012-09-04 Thread Roland RoLaNd
i have 32 bit lenny running. ( i cannot upgrade) i need to install mysql-server-5.1 amd64 on it. This system is already running l 64 bit kernel. i can't seem to find that package in any current repo so i'm thinking of force installing it using dpkg but i don't know how to solve dependencies