🙏 Colocation recommendation request! (AMS region)
A few weeks ago we asked our dear community if they had any servers they were willing to donate to our foundation for stress testing our BGP engine Rotonda. Since then we had some amazing offers beyond our wildest dreams.
We are now in the luxury position where we have five servers! This opens up more possibilities, such as having a CI/CD server, allowing us to migrate away from GitHub to Codeberg. However, the servers are now heating up our lunch room in a test setup.
Who has colocation recommendations? Preferred region is Amsterdam; Science Park would be perfect. Note that we’re not looking for a favor, but a contractual agreement we can depend on.
All videos of NLNOG Day 2025 are now available on our Youtube channel. You can find the playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf16gf51QKo&list=PLZZnjVUUZQgTmRyMrLVFIVI7xgLYirvTK
A big thank you to all presenters, volunteers, sponsors and our AV cew (Global Media) for making this a great event!
Yesterday, 10 years ago, Let's Encrypt issued their first #TLS #certificate to the domain name helloworld.letsencrypt.org. Since then, they issued 7 billion certificates.
To quote Borat: "Great success!"
Congrats!
The BSDCan 2025 FreeBSD Developer Summit Core Team Update is now available to watch on YouTube.
This session offers a look at the ongoing work and discussions shaping FreeBSD’s direction, including:
-Planning for FreeBSD 15.0 and beyond
-Improving package delivery speeds via CDN
-Strengthening documentation and modernizing the wiki
-Ideas for smoother core team transitions and contributor engagement
Watch the full update here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ace0C_wXII&t=958s
Introducing the "Tuscolo" Certificate Transparency logs, a new thing that @filippo and I am operating:
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/ct-policy/c/KCzYEIIZSxg
For a while the certificate transparency ecosystem has been struggling to keep up with correctness (basically never roll back) and reliability (99% uptime) requirements, to address this there is a updated standard that @filippo worked on, Since he also worked on the first serious implementation of this new standard "sunlight", Port 179 LTD (me) and Geomys (Filippo and friends) are now running a log running this, ensuring there is "skin in the game" for this spec.
This log will be different from the traditional set up of CT logs that involve large MySQL or Cassandra clusters, and instead we just have a single reasonably low cost "bare metal" AMD machine. We expect this log to be around 50 times cheaper to operate than the established CT logs based in the "hyperscalers" (AWS/GCP/Azure/etc).
Tuscolo is currently receiving all Lets Encrypt certificates (as they are issued), hopefully there will be more CA's to come once we have full acceptance in the web browsers (we will likely be the first for a sunlight/new spec log to be accepted)
Theo de Raadt gives an update on the recent S0i/S0ix (Suspend-to-Idle) support in #OpenBSD, as well as a heads up.
amd64 snapshots contain a 2 line diff which enable S0ix suspend by default on many laptops.
Tests are encouraged, but please read the mail carefully, only high quality reports are needed right now. You'll want to make sure your dmesg contains "S0ix" in the line below.
acpi0: sleep states S0ix S3 S4 S5
With any hope 7.6 will be in an even better shape for laptop users.