Someone at watchmouse wrote some userdefined functions for mysql which seems to be working fine and allowing ipv6 addresses to be stored in VARBINARY(16).

Jeej for him. Compiling failed however on freeBSD 8. Somehow the gcc on this bsd version doesn’t understand the provided makefile. I am too lazy to find out how to fix a makefile, but there are only 2 libraries built. So compiling them manually is a trivial task:


# gcc -O2 -shared -fPIC -I/usr/local/include -o mysql_udf_ipv6.so mysql_udf_ipv6.c
# gcc -O2 -shared -fPIC -I/usr/local/include -o mysql_udf_idna.so mysql_udf_idna.c
# cp -f *.so /usr/local/lib/mysql/plugin/


This is all. for loading the UDF in MySQL, follow the provided readme.

Seeing this error after upgrading PHP to 5.3.9 on FreeBSD?

Reinstalling pecl-memcached solves this.


$ cd /usr/ports/databases/pecl-memcached
$ make deinstall
$ make distclean
$ make install

then restart the webserver.

This is the first of a series of blogposts of my experiences with enabling IPv6 on my co-located network.

In may 2011 I attended the Dutch PHP Conference where David Soria Parra spoke about IPv6 for PHP developers.
His talk triggered me to actually start implementing IPv6.

I am lucky enough to have a very IPv6 aware ISP who provides a native IPv6 connection to my home account. This enables me to have a dual stack (both IPv4 as IPv6) internet connection for testing.

For the co-location, I only had to sent an email requesting an IPv6 range.
Be aware however! I didn’t ask for a specific range/subnet and they gave me a /64 network.

NOT GOOD!

The smallest possible subnet in IPv6 is /64.
This means a /64 cannot be subdivided in smaller subnets. The IPv6 bitmask/subnet ninja’s are able to explain this doesn’t make sense.
If you want a little bit more as advanced network setup, think a firewall with multiple subnets on your inside interface… you WILL need a bigger address-space as /64.

So I sent them a new email requesting for a /48, which I got 5 minutes later.
A /48 subnet makes it possible to create 65k and a little bit more /64 subnets… which should be enough for small networking needs.

(and yes… that is an understatement).

So… native IPv6 connection at home, address space available for the co-location site… Let the games begin.

(part 2, PIX/ASA configuration will be next.)


* @codeCoverageIgnoreStart

but:

// @codeCoverageIgnoreStart


does work as expected.

The errormessage gives the solution:

mkdir  /tmp/trac/
chown www:www /tmp/trac/

Add the env statement to the virtualhost configuration:

SetEnv PYTHON_EGG_CACHE "/tmp/trac/"


restart apache, problem solved.

Six Reasons Why I’m Not On Facebook, By Wired UK’s Editor

True, it’s about facebook, not twitter. But is there any difference really?

while($iDir->valid()) {
if (!$iDir->isDot()) {
$filecounter++;
}
$iDir->next();
}


Soulfly – Omen

It kicks ass!