Author Archives: Matthias Scheler

Movie of the Week: The Dark Knight

Posted on 27 July, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

A lot has been said about the latest Batman movie, The Dark Knight. Especially Heath Ledger‘s performance as the Joker has been praised a lot. I became sceptical about the film because of all the hype. This evening Silke and … Continue reading →

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DNS cache poisoning vs. NAT

Posted on 27 July, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

The latest DNS security issue (please read Hubert’s Blog entry) proves again that NAT is a bad idea. If you run a DNS server behind a NAT (which you really shouldn’t) you can pick one of two evils: You use … Continue reading →

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RAID and file system performance tuning

Posted on 25 July, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

The last time I tested software RAID 1 under NetBSD I wasn’t really satisfied with the performance. Especially file system operations were much slower than I expected. Resulting from that my current home server uses an Intel SRCS14L RAID Controller … Continue reading →

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