Mudy’s Blog

I always had ipv6 tunneling enabled on my server. One with he.net and one with 6to4. I never had any problems with them with either as a default route. Recently my server provider linode.com start supporting native IPv6, but I found out other IP addresses are not route-able through native interface. Linux is only smart enough to pick which source address to use for outgoing connection, but not so much about return path.

The solution is policy based routing with IPv6. There are two related options in kernel configure, so make sure they are enabled. If not, you will encounter an error.

First install iproute2 and add a new route table.

echo "200 to4" >> /etc/iproute2/rt_tables

Then you can add source based rules and routes to this table.

ip -6 rule add from 2002::/16 table to4
ip -6 route add 2002::/16 dev 6to4 table to4
ip -6 route add default via ::192.88.99.1 dev 6to4 table to4

One thing I am still not sure is whether to delete the 2002::/16 from main route table.

ip -6 route del 2002::/16

I think this can solve some stateful firewall problem, but not necessary.

 Tweet
 

Yejun Uncategorized

Amazon announced 1 year free service for new customer. Sign up here.

AWS Free Usage Tier (Per Month):

• 750 hours of Amazon EC2 Linux Micro Instance usage (613 MB of memory and 32-bit and 64-bit platform support) – enough hours to run continuously each month*
• 750 hours of an Elastic Load Balancer plus 15 GB data processing*
  10 GB of Amazon Elastic Block Storage, plus 1 million I/Os, 1 GB of snapshot storage, 10,000 snapshot Get Requests and 1,000 snapshot Put Requests*
• 5 GB of Amazon S3 storage, 20,000 Get Requests, and 2,000 Put Requests*
• 30 GB per of internet data transfer (15 GB of data transfer “in” and 15 GB of data transfer “out” across all services except Amazon CloudFront)*
• 25 Amazon SimpleDB Machine Hours and 1 GB of Storage**
  100,000 Requests of Amazon Simple Queue Service**
• 100,000 Requests, 100,000 HTTP notifications and 1,000 email notifications for Amazon Simple Notification Service**

In addition to these services, the AWS Management Console is available at no charge to help you build and manage your application on AWS.

 Tweet
 

Yejun Uncategorized

There is problem which has been puzzled me for long time. When the grub2 root is on 2nd disk, the stage2 is not directly bootable from grub4dos stage1, but can be chain loaded from grub4dos as a linux kernel. The same problem happens to burg as well.

It turns out the stage2 file only has the relative path from root if you use grub-install script. So all you have to do is to embed a absolute path in prefix. Here is the brief step to make a direct bootable stage2.

grub-mkimage --output=/boot/grub/core.img --prefix=(hd1,2)/boot/grub \
         biosdisk part_msdos ext2
cat /boot/grub/lnxboot.img /boot/grub/core.img > g2ldr

Now copy g2ldr to your windows’ partition. Make a grub4dos stage1 file

grubinst.exe -o -b=g2ldr g2ldr.mbr

You can find grubinst.exe from grub4dos website.

Add it to windows bootmgr with bcdedit

bcdedit /create /d Linux /application BOOTSECTOR
bcdedit /set {ID} device partition=c:
bcdedit /set {ID}  path \g2ldr.mbr
bcdedit /displayorder {ID} /addlast

 Tweet
 

Yejun Uncategorized

There are many commands to copy a directory in Linux. The difference between them in current Linux distribution are very small. All of them support link, time, ownership and sparse.

I tested them to copy a Linux kernel source tree. Each command I tested twice and keep the lower result.
The original directory size is 639660032 bytes. All methods generate exact same size of 675446784 bytes without sparse option.

Time used and destination size:

Concolusion:
For non sparse copy, rsync is the fastest. For sparse copy, rsync and cpio have the best space efficiency, but slow.

 Tweet
 

Yejun Uncategorized

This time it is real. Google just announced java for app engine.

Updates: And cron job in app engine as well.

Two differences I noticed from python gae. It deploys byte code (war file) instead of source code to cloud. Using xml instead of yaml.

 Tweet
 

Yejun Uncategorized

I just ordered a new cloud server from mosso.

From the server IP address 67-23-8-*.slicehost.net, apparently it is a rebranded slicehost.

To fully utilize my vps, I also build a home-grow GeoDNS server. So if you visit my blog from different locations, you could possibly get 4 different IPs.

 Tweet
 

Yejun Uncategorized