Ethereum
Althea Development Update #70: Dueling scripts
Put on your night time sunglasses because I have a tale from our cyberpunk future, or present as it may be. How a poorly coded smart contract disrupted an ISP in rural Oregon.
DevOps
Outage report: 14-Jan–2019
Starting at 8pm Pacific time yesterday through 3am Pacific time today Althea’s exit servers were down. This is our first major (longer than a 15 minute) outage since June of 2018. The technical issue exposed is pretty minor, the real feedback here is about a series of failures in our incident recovery procedure. Primary Causes: * Incorrect configuration of per process file descriptor limits on the exits * Recovery failure of some client devices Failures in incident response procedure: *
DevOps
Using C.O.R.E. to work on mesh network routing protocols
C.O.R.E. may sound like the name of a 1980's superhero team, but it is actually a tool that simulates wired and wifi networks, right down to the radio waves. For this reason I am using it to test my modifications to Babel, an ad-hoc 'mesh' routing protocol.