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HomeLab DCIM Rezoning

Circumstances lacking an interesting story, my Netbox instance (via FreeBSD jail) has been offline during the year of relocations from SFO to Vancouver to Chicago to Sunnyvale. Fun!?

Anyway, I'm resyncing the regions, subnets, sites, racks, and generally resuming a substantial amount of infra/dcim maintenance over the past several days. Housekeeping, basically.

Perhaps at this point the term "HomeLab" is a stretch. There are eight sites across two continents, six colos, five racks I can touch in person, a few hundred switch-ports up to 1-100G, a bit over 1PB of storage, and a MRC equivalent to a 4bd house mortgage in most of the USA. 🧐

Perhaps it's time to start a 503.C and share these resources more with the BSD community. Probably so. ️

#homelab #freebsd

Speaking of Matrix global services occasionally exacerbating one's propensity for migraines, oh look a total outage for the malignant design... oh but they tell everyone a fantastic story:

> "Matrix is a distributed fault tolerated encrypted network of disaggregated nodes!"

except that they deployed via an active/passive two node PostgreSQL backend which just crashed both nodes and took 55TB of network data offline. also their TLS termination is fronted by CloudFlare (anything in back of TLS termination is not TLS encrypted).

- https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/03/matrixorg_raid_failure/

#matrix #chat #networking #linux #encryption #thisIsNotHighAvailability