ddclient - Could not connect to dynv6.com

I use dynv6.com as a DynDNS Service for me an my customers. During the last installation of the service at a client, I ran into a issue with ddclient not sending the update to dynv6.com. root@zoidberg:~# ddclient --force FAILED: updating zoidberg.ddns.level66.network: Could not connect to dynv6.com. I used the configuration values from the dynv6.com site but it seems they did not be enough. root@gw:~# cat /etc/ddclient.conf # Configuration file for ddclient generated by debconf # # /etc/ddclient....

April 25, 2024 · 1 min · 201 words · Jan Gilla

Intel X710 NIC with Packetloss/Flapping-Links

Two years ago, I’ve used multiple Intel X710-DA4 NICs to built an EVPN Setup for my company level66.network. Whilst most of the connections to other peers worked quite well, I’ve had a few links which showed some strange issues. Most commonly the links were reported as flapping from the other peers or they just reported packetloss on their end. After quite some time of troubleshooting, switching optics and using different ports we found the solution....

February 14, 2023 · 2 min · 324 words · Jan Gilla