Apache 1.3 patch for ProxyPreserveHost

Thursday, 09. 17. 2009  –  Category: vague

Patch against Apache 1.3.411 to backport the ProxyPreserveHost feature. I can’t remember where I found it now, but I’ve tweaked it through a few Apache revisions.
Useful for migrating sites from one host to another before or during DNS propagation.
That said, I’m using Varnish and HAProxy an increasing amount for such plumbing.
Yep, still running 1.3 around [...]

Casual Firewall / VPN benchmarking

Wednesday, 08. 12. 2009  –  Category: vague

Two datacentres, each with a pair of 2.5GHz Xeon firewalls running OpenBSD. Benching with iperf yielded the following:

Between firewall pair, LAN
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.00 GBytes 860 Mbits/sec
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.00 GBytes 860 Mbits/sec
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1017 MBytes 853 Mbits/sec

Firewall to firewall between DCs, outside VPN, no PF
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.02 GBytes [...]

Firefox extensions for Amazon Web Services

Wednesday, 08. 12. 2009  –  Category: vague

These two Firefox extensions are soothing the pain between the CLI and the AJAX-with-treacle web interface:

S3Fox
Elasticfox

There’s bound to be something that draws together all the foregin keys – AMI, volume, instance, reservation etc – but I’ve yet to find that. Been putting off writing it for a while…

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