Linux

Mail Problems

Mail Problems

History It was a beautiful day. My mailserver on the Raspberry Pi B was running without any issues for some time now. In the evening of March 12th I got a nice email from my external DNS provider: The BuddyNS janitor writing. A safety notification on your BuddyNS account: Your zones reached 60% of your account's traffic quota. Details: * Total traffic produced this month: 181 Thousand queries. * Current traffic quota: 0.
A NAS tale

A NAS tale

In August 2009 I decided it was time to replace my old Pentium II serving 5 old SUN storage disks (the white boxes, enormously noisy, for those who remember) with a modern NAS system. I bought a QNAP TS-439 Pro. The integrated firmware (aka customized Linux) gave me the creeps from a software design point of view, but it did the job. Almost exactly a year later there was a fatal event and my software RAID (RAID 5) decided not to assemble anymore.