2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
2.5 Admins 129: 2.5aDMiNs.cOm
A “smart” lighting system goes wrong, mitigating a DNS attack, an unsatisfying update about Eufy cameras, why Jim and Allan won’t be active on Mastodon any time soon, and how we set up servers in a few minutes.
Plugs
Klara Live Webinar, Feb 23rd: Deploying a Successful Performance Audit
News/discussion
US school runs lights 24/7/365: The smart lights have been broken since 2021
This is why your DNS queries now have random capitalization
Anker finally comes clean about its Eufy security cameras
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We were asked about how we set up servers in a few minutes.
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