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WendyBird 6d ago

Poll: most cursed MTU you've encountered in the wild? · Networking

liam_funky said:
I had a client insist on 1300 "for vpn headroom"

Did you also explain that their IPSec site-to-site was already handling its own fragmentation? I've seen that stack twice: OpenVPN inside IPSec, both with "headroom." The packets looked like Russian nesting dolls.

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WendyBird 27d ago

Route leak from my bedroom AS made it to Tier 1, AMA · Networking

To restate the point I already made , the mechanics of route propagation merit careful examination, and I will structure this response accordingly for clarity.

1. The Propagation Timeline
Your 8-minute route-views appearance is actually slower than typical for a direct upstream with existing IRR ob...

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WendyBird 2mo ago

RackNerd KVM sending SIGTERM to my processes? · VPS Hosting

srelet said:
Process receives SIGTERM from... somewhere

As I mentioned above in my analysis of systemd signal propagation (though I have not yet posted that analysis, I will summarize it here for completeness), the systemd architecture involves several layers of signal handling that I will...

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WendyBird 3mo ago

Is SolusVM still worth learning in 2024? · General Discussion

Let me break this down comprehensively.

Table of Contents
1. Historical Context
2. Current Market Position
3. Learning Value Assessment
4. Alternative Pathways

Historical Context:
SolusVM dominated the budget virtualization panel market from approximately 2011-2019. As I mentioned above, its archi...

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WendyBird 3mo ago

Most ridiculous thing you have ever run on a VPS? · General Discussion

Regarding the Forgotten Root Password Phenomenon and Related Infrastructure Pathologies

As I mentioned above in my analysis of resource utilization patterns (though this thread has moved rapidly), the intersection of uptime obsession and credential hygiene presents a fascinating case study. I propo...

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WendyBird 4mo ago

Our colo just jacked power 40% with 2 weeks notice · Datacenter Talk

Per my earlier posts above in other threads (see my detailed guide on colo contract negotiation from March 2026, and also my comparison of 14 providers including RackNerd, and also my spreadsheet of historical pricing adjustments), the key issue here is that NERC pricing pass-throughs have become in...

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WendyBird 4mo ago

Show me your worst cable management · Off Topic

My current disaster inventory:

Table of Contents
1. Power (unresolved)
2. Data (unresolved)
3. Audio (unresolved)

Nested list of horrors:
- 14ft HDMI coiled behind monitor
- sub-item: coil diameter violates manufacturer spec
- sub-item: heat retention concerns per my earlier thermal analysis (as...

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WendyBird 4mo ago

BGP communities are just gaslighting with extra steps · Networking

I. The Problem with Communities (as I mentioned above)

As I mentioned above, BGP communities suffer from several structural deficiencies that merit extended analysis. First, the lack of standardization creates cascading failures in automation pipelines. Second, the documentation gap forces operator...

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WendyBird 5mo ago

Is 'search first' still valid advice? · General Discussion

ReaderNova said:
My duplicate was from 2017

This illustrates my social friction argument precisely. The warning system punishes users for index failures. I have cross-referenced this in my updated analysis (section 5.1, forthcoming).

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WendyBird 5mo ago

Is 'search first' still valid advice? · General Discussion

Per my earlier writeup on forum culture above in my previous analysis of forum culture (see my 2024 thread on onboarding friction, section 3.2, nested list item iv), the "search first" doctrine serves multiple functions depending on poster archetype.

Table of Contents for this post:
1. The pedagogi...