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Well in light of the fact that aol.com, rr.com and frontiernet.net all block “dialup / cable / dsl” ip’s from sending mail to their servers, I have setup my border gateway’s email server to forward all mail through my ISP’s email host using SMTP AUTH to allow me to relay. I’ve sent emails both from and to my domain and all works wonderfully.

Also, you may have noticed there was a brief outage yesterday… the power was abruptly terminated to the house but everything is back to normal. I also was able to recover the data off the odd-acting /users RAID array and put it on a temporary IDE harddrive, so the server should be 100% functional.

Wow, that’s alot of news :)

I’ll be taking the server down around 5:00pm EST tomorrow to do some work on the disk array that houses the home directories for the network. One of the fibre channel disks is misbehaving, so I will be putting an IDE harddrive in to get the data off of it before it dies on me. The outage will probably last until 6 or 7 PM EST and the system will probably be slow for a while afterwords while the 38GiB of data transfers over.

There was an hour long outage tonight while I re-synced superblocks on a raid-0 array that houses /users on the server and fscked the two raid arrays. Sorry about the downtime to any effected users.

I upgraded the webserver last night to kernel version 2.4.25 to patch a memremap(2) security flaw and while I was doing that upgraded the motherboard to an Intel L440GX+ server board with 2 P3-450’s. At some point more disk and more memory will be added, stay tuned.