cablespaghetti.dev is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
Wasting bunch of time reducing the public IPv4 usage on AWS for a client to reduce recurring monthly costs (AWS charges by the hour for IPv4s)
There are things AWS doesn’t even support that would help, like giving an RDS instance a public IPv6 without public IPv4. It's dual-stack or die! Please, I don't need any IPv4…
I pray for the day all networking is #IPv6 native and any IPv4 is just gateways for backcompat for laggards…
On Thursday, @gyptazy provided a talk about #BoxyBSD at the "Virtualization Gathering" at @credativde.
@gyptazy provided some more information about the BoxyBSD project, but also about the history and infrastructure including the switches of #FreeBSD #Jails, #bhyve and #Proxmox (#kvm). Afterwards, additional information about the #Sylve project were shared and why this is so important and interesting and could make BoxyBSD return to bhyve based #virtualization.
Slides: https://cdn.gyptazy.com/talks/BoxyBSD_Virtualization_Hypervisor_bhyve_Proxmox_credativ_gyptazy.pdf
Recording: https://peertube.gyptazy.com/w/2HtUv9HFBNEU4sEw52bD8H
RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@ddrake/115712813455132127
This would have some interesting implications for #ipv6 addresses.
> Starting Nmap 7.95 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2025-12-13 12:12 EST
> Warning: Hostname [redacted].home.nivex.net resolves, but not to any IPv4 address. Try scanning with -6
Dammit, you know what the problem is, do the right thing!
Goodbye Linux & Podman, hello FreeBSD & Jails!
Just migrated my blog (https://blog.hofstede.it) to a fully native BSD stack (where my Gemini Capsule was already living).
Stack (using Bastille VNET Jails):
- Caddy (Ingress, TLS, Reverse-Proxy)
- Nginx Jail (Internal. Static file serving)
- PF
The Cool Part: A Zero-Trust CI/CD pipeline.
My Forgejo runner deploys via restricted rrsync into an air-gapped "transporter" jail, which nullfs mounts the web root.
Security: Source-IP restricted, no interactive shells, no PTY.
The simplicity of files-on-disk beats container abstraction every time.
#BastilleBSD #SelfHosted #SysAdmin #IPv6 #ZFS #FreeBSD #RunBSD
Watching the premier of the Python documentary ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4QL4VqJ0 ). Reminded how the Python 2 -> 3 transition has a lot of parallels to the IPv4 -> #IPv6 transition.
AWS Client VPN now supports connectivity to IPv6 resources
Posted on: Aug 26, 2025
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/08/aws-client-vpn-connectivity-ipv6-resources/
One slightly weird thing I had is that inbound #ipv6 traffic on both SSH and HTTPS was returning a "connection reset by peer" for a while. It seems to be working now, but if some IPv6 folks can check https://cablespaghetti.dev loads properly over v6 for them now, it would put my mind at rest.