I’m the administrator of kbin.life, a general purpose/tech orientated kbin instance.
They’re out there and not so hidden. If you look, you’ll find them. There’s definitely an iptv community out there.
This story seems a bit weird to me. A lot of iptv operators don’t sell directly to people, rather wholesale to dealers.
So I bet they got a dealer here is all.
Oh, I forgot about Azerothcore (which is a fork from Trinitycore, and absorbed some changes from certain private server source that has been released in the past).
Which you choose I think depends on what you want.
Trinitycore has a more strict development policy of doing things properly and not for example concentrating too much on getting boss fights etc “right”. It’s more of a technical project than “ready to go private server”.
Whereas (and this is as I understand it, I’ve not done any work for the project directly) Azerothcore is a bit more lax in their requirements. Now, don’t take this to mean they accept bad code. It just means they don’t have the stricter guidelines that trinitycore have.
I could be wrong though. I’ve been out of the game for a while now.
I think so. I would consider perhaps allowing a short time without power before doing that. To handle short cuts and brownouts.
So perhaps poll once per minute, if no power for more than 5 polls trigger a shutdown. Make sure you can provide power for at least twice as long as the grace period. You could be a bit more flash and measure the battery voltage and if it drops below a certain threshold send a more urgent shutdown on another gpio. But really if the batteries are good for 20mins+ then it should be quite safe to do it on a timer.
The logic could be a bit more nuanced, to handle multiple short power cuts in succession to shorten the grace period (since the batteries could be drained somewhat). But this is all icing on the cake I would say.
I was looking at doing something similar with my Asustor NAS. That is, supply the voltage, battery, charging circuit myself, and add one of those CH347 USB boards to provide I2C/GPIO etc and just have the charging circuit also provide a voltage good signal that software on the NAS could poll and use to shut down.
My understanding is that the only issues were the write hole on power loss for raid 5/6 and rebuild failures due to un-seen damage to surviving drives.
Issues with single drive rebuild failures should be largely mitigated by regular drive surface checks and scrubbing if the filesystem supports it. This should ensure that any single drive errors that might have been masked by raid are removed and all drives contain the correct data.
The write hole itself could be entirely mitigated since the OP is building their own system. What I mean by that is that they could include a “mini UPS” to keep 12v/5v up long enough to shut down gracefully in a power loss scenario (use a GPIO for “power good” signal). Now, back in the day we had raid controllers with battery backup to hold the cache memory contents and flush it to disk on regaining power. But, those became super rare quite some time ago now. Also, hardware raid was always a problem with getting a compatible replacement if the actual controller died.
Is there another issue with raid 5/6 that I’m not aware of?
Trinitycore has a guide https://trinitycore.info/ if you follow it properly it will result in a working server. Any time I’ve seen someone have a problem following it, they either missed a step by mistake, or tried to go off on a tangent, configuring it for their own needs during install/setup.
First make it work with the instructions, and once it is working, then tinker with it :P
It’s more likely trinitycore (which forked from mangos quite some time ago). https://github.com/TrinityCore/TrinityCore/
Mangos do still have a Wrath server branch. But specifically for 3.3.5 trinitycore is more often used.
Wireguard vpn into my home router. Works on android so fire sticks etc can run the client.
Linux secure boot was a little weird last I checked. The kernel and modules don’t need to be secure boot signed. Most distros can use shim to pass secure boot and then take over the secure boot process.
There are dkms kernel modules that are user compiled. These are signed using a machine owner key. So the machine owner could for sure compile their own malicious version and still be in a secure boot context.
Yeah, but asking film/tv producers for permission would kill my content collection!
Actually how is your ISP giving out IPs to you? Mine uses IPv6 PD to give me a /48. And I then use SLAAC locally on the first /64 prefix on my LAN. Plus another /64 for VPN connections.
If you mean receiving RA/ND packets from your ISP (which are used to announce IPv6 prefixes) then you need to allow icmpv6 packets (if you don’t want to be able to be pinged, just block echo requests, ICMP in v4 and v6 carry important messages otherwise).
If your ISP uses DHCPv6 Prefix delegation you will need to allow packets to UDP port 546 and run a DHCPv6 client capable of handling PD messages.
If you have a fixed prefix, then you probably don’t need to use your ISPs SLAAC at all. You could just put your router on a fixed IP as <yourprefix>::1 and then have your router create RA/ND packets (radvd package in linux, not sure what it would be on pfsense) and assign IPs within your network that way.
If you have a dynamic prefix… It’s a problem I guess. But probably someone has done it and a google search will turn up how they handled it.
EDIT: Just clarified that the RA/ND packets advertise prefixes, not assign addresses.
I believe the privacy concerns are made moot if all consumer level routers by default blocked incoming untracked connections and you need to poke holes in the firewall for the ports you need.
Having said that, even knowing the prefix it’s a huge address space to port scan through. So it’s pretty secure too with privacy extensions enabled.
But for sure the onus is on the router makers for now.
I used HE for ages until my isp gave native ipv6. I also used sixxs back then too. Both provided good connectivity for the few sites that were around using it at the time.
This is my biggest bugbear about a lot of UK isps. They are dynamically allocating ipv6 prefixes for absolutely no good reason.
I’ve only ever done ipv6 using Linux directly as a firewall or a mikrotik router. So cannot help with pfsense I’m afraid.
You start by adding ipv6 and serving both. One side needs to move first. Content providers or isps.
The big tech companies are using ipv6. In the UK the isps are mostly offering it too.
Host both and help us move towards dropping Ipv4 some day. It’s not going to happen in a day.
It’s for backup purposes mainly. A lot of cloud backup providers don’t store permissions.
So if I restore the data I can then restore the permissions after. So these are the folders I am backing up (with some exceptions in /var)
OK so it’s fairly simple. You need to install the acl package (or whatever equivalent package contains getfacl/setfacl. Then you can use that to dump the data from an entire structure into a file (I also then bzip that). Then I backup all installed packages to help with a restore too.
So the script looks like:
#!/bin/bash
cd /etc
/usr/bin/getfacl -R . | /usr/bin/bzip2 -9 >PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
chmod 600 PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
cd /home
/usr/bin/getfacl -R . | /usr/bin/bzip2 -9 >PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
chmod 600 PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
cd /root
/usr/bin/getfacl -R . | /usr/bin/bzip2 -9 >PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
chmod 600 PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
cd /var
/usr/bin/getfacl -R . | /usr/bin/bzip2 -9 >PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
chmod 600 PERMISSION_BACKUP.bz2
/usr/bin/apt list --installed | /usr/bin/bzip2 -9 >/root/INSTALLED-PACKAGES.bz2
chmod 600 /root/INSTALLED-PACKAGES.bz2
To restore you change to the folder the backup was taken from, unbzip the file (or uncompress live via pipe) and use setfacl --restore=<file>
Yeah. Only on my phone right now but will get it and post here later/tomorrow.
I mean, too late for you now. But I have a script that backs up just the permissions and owners for a given folder hierarchy.
I use it because I backup to a cloud backup platform that doesn’t save them. So these files are backed up with the data so the files and permissions/owners can be restored in an emergency.
But you could of course also use the file to restore permissions after a user generated mistake too.
Yes. I host a vpn at my house. Then vpn in on fire stick/laptop etc. No problems to date.