Recently, we're seeing an uptick in GRE traffic as part of a DDoS mix. Most prominently, GRE featured as the biggest volume contributor in the record 600+ Gbps attack on krebsonsecurity.com. (Note that the site is currently offline as it's finding a new home, so any links to krebsonsecurity.com will reference The Internet Archive instead.)…

So, I'm bringing a little Chromebox back into use on our home network to do some basic network services: dhcp, dns, and probably actually using it as a router (long story; tl;dr TekSavvy says they'll give you a /56 but then the VDSL modem they sell you can't do DHCPv6-PD properly). Anyway... I slapped Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial server on it and started plugging away at a couple of things. I opted to use ISC's newer Kea DHCP server rather than isc-dhcp-server. Little did I know that Ubuntu and systemd had other ideas…

@XenServerArmy asked in this tweet what applications/services people are running on their XenServer deployments. So, here's a quick list for i-worx:…