Yesterday we brought our Zimbra 8.0 install online. All outgoing mail should be relayed through our relay server, but as authentication settings are not available through the web interface and all configuration info found on Google, including the Zimbra wiki is wrong (at least for version 8), here’s my doc on it. Set the relay [...]

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I recently installed a new instance of Zimbra 8.0 (actually, I started just before 8.0 came out and upgrade 7.0 to 8.0) and wanted to enable SSL with our wildcard domain certificate. However, documentation on this is scattered all around the web, and even on Zimbra’s own wiki there are tons of outdated or unclear [...]

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I am running a “central DNS server”, powered by PowerDNS 3.1, which contains a number of domains natively in MySQL. The ‘type’ value for these domains is set to ‘MASTER’. Whenever I make an update to the domains (and update the SOA), PowerDNS sees this and sends a notify packet to two slave DNS servers, which [...]

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Configured ISC DHCPd failover this morning. Setup was  pretty smooth overall, although you have to take care that when you restart your (before “only”) dhcpd, it will go into recovery mode, and doesn’t seem to come out of that until it can reach its peer. I had only started one, but this meant no DHCP [...]

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Welcome to my new weblog. The old one hadn’t been touched for quite a while, as most of my social status updates now happen on Facebook and/or Twitter. I’ve revamped the main webpage (using a probably not unfamiliar design), moved the old weblog to blog.sid3windr.be and started this new one on tech.sid3windr.be. This blog will [...]

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