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Netflix and IPv6 blocks and FreeBSD router

I've had issues for several years with mobile devices (particularly iPads) on my home network accessing Netflix. The loading spinner in the Netflix app just goes around and around and eventually times out with an error, and nothing ever works. None of the "Netflix doesn't work on my iPad" troubleshooting

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Moving this blog to static hosting - hosting options

I discovered the other day that the Jekyll static templating system has the capability of importing content from various blog systems. At the same time I was setting up static hosting for a client at $work on Amazon Web Services. Since then I've been thinking about moving this blog to

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Upgrading FreeBSD home router

Background Just over a week ago my venerable home Internet router, a Dell GX260 slim (Pentium 4 2Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 80Gb IDE drive) running FreeBSD 8.4, finally gave up the ghost. It would randomly lock up, and on reboot required a manual filesystem check. As it's running headless in

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IPv6 clients hitting this blog

When I moved this server to Rackspace in April (and blogged about it) one of the primary motivations was so I could provide IPv6 support. Earlier this month I decided it'd be interesting to see just how many clients accessing the blog are actually using IPv6, so I grabbed this

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Moving from AWS to Rackspace

I've moved my little cloud instance from Amazon AWS to Rackspace, which includes hosting of this blog. It was a simple process, but I thought I'd write a few notes about it. There are a few reasons I wanted to move, but the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back

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IPv6 on my home network

I decided to finally setup IPv6 on my home network, for now running in parallel with IPv4. My DSL ISP (egate) has had IPv6 support for a long time, I received the info I needed from them to set it up over three years ago. I played with it a