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GuyPostington

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About GuyPostington

Just a guy on the internet.

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    Comment #22474308

    So what starts?

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    Comment #22436714

    Here's the boulder CA function that generates serials https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/blob/master/ca/ca.go#...

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    Comment #22427084

    > Being good at catching errors doesn't soften the blow of the errors being so readily occurring in the first place. Yes it does. If you can see the errors you can change your usag…

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    Comment #22424563

    You know you could monitor your certs to verify that your client is functioning correctly. There's also notification emails if you provide your email address at issuance time.

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    Comment #22424525

    Ways to monitor for cert expiry in no particular order: 1) Prometheus + blackbox_exporter https://www.robustperception.io/get-alerted-before-your-ssl-... 2) Sensu/Nagios https://gi…

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    Comment #22424484

    You're funny.

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    Comment #22370092

    The parent stated that you can run your own DNS server temporarily for the cost of the hardware to run the server and shut the DNS server off after the certificate has been issued.…

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    Comment #22370075

    You should check out https://community.letsencrypt.org and ask for help there!

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    Comment #22368009

    Here you go, read the source. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/letsencrypt/website/master...

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    Comment #22327523

    Can you give some more insight on what happened to the team managing openssl during that time? I remember being on-call at a job when the news dropped.

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    Comment #22327490

    This is the internet as I remember it.

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    Comment #22310406

    You could help too if you choose to contribute to this project! https://github.com/tdelmas/Let-s-Clone

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    Comment #22310396

    To help produce an LE2, please contribute to https://github.com/tdelmas/Let-s-Clone

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    Comment #22308392

    You should post on the community forum if you ever experience an issue like that again. Https://community.letsencrypt.org

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    Comment #22229779

    Something similar exists for Sensu too https://github.com/sensu-plugins/sensu-plugins-http/blob/mas...

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    Comment #22229729

    $ echo | openssl s_client -connect "www.certera.io":443 -servername "www.certera.io" -verify_hostname "www.certera.io" 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -noout -issuer issuer=C = US, O = …

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    Comment #21851249

    That's exactly why you should read the book. It's less so about motorcycle than you think.

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    Comment #21847412

    Can you show this off? It sounds like something I need to have in my life. What TSDB did you use? What did your conversion from rtl_433 to a metric look like?

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    Comment #21817750

    Can you give an example of this garbage?

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    Comment #21714315

    Can you give an example of the half baked-ness please?

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    Comment #21575642

    I used Ansible in pull mode ( https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/cli/ansible-pull.htm... ) in my UserData for several years. I've since left that company, but the implementati…

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    Comment #21561621

    I can assure you this was not a tick box operation.

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    Comment #21559889

    Probably. What matters is the community response to the outage though. From what I saw there's been a ton of love for the team working through an entire Sunday.

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    Comment #21309049

    This links directly to a PDF. Reader beware.