Backing up Netbox Docker/updating

I’ve tried to update Netbox several times recently and had various errors. Fun errors like Container netbox-docker-netbox-1 Error don’t help a lot. To update I use: Seems like the version transition isn’t working as the last 3 updates all broke for various reasons. Given that the Netbox Docker setup uses Postgres I now do the […]

Find My for a contact shows ā€œFind Unavailableā€

Apple released their new commercial touting the ability to use Precise Location to find you contact’s iPhone 15. If you see ā€œFind Unavailableā€ even if you both have iPhone 15s the only fix I’ve found that works reliably is to remove the contact and then add them again. It appears to time out after a […]

Comcast EDI with OPNsense / route public IPs through OPNsense

I’m writing this because I couldn’t find anything specific and definitive that described how this should work and Comcrap used to provide next to nothing on the configuration. This have recently added this. When you get your setup from Comcrap you’ll get a /30 and another network. We’ll use a /29 in this case. Something […]

Increase an Ubuntu VM disk size on a Proxmox host live

Step one is to update the disk size for the VM. This is easily done in the GUI. Select your VM on the left, click on “Hardware,” choose the virtual disk you want to resize, and then select the “Disk Action” menu from the top. From here select “Resize” as per the below: This should […]

Shimo can connect, but does not pass traffic after a while

I cam across this on macOS 13.5 (Ventura). Basically Shimo would connect, but then it could not pass any traffic. A reboot fixed it every time, but was painful at times. First thing I did was check the Preferences and enable “Reset Network Configuration when Shimo is terminated” under the Advanced tab. That and pushing […]

mailcow: Confirmed A record with IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, but HTTP validation failed

Found this happening in my new mailcow installation and could reproduce following the steps here https://docs.mailcow.email/post_installation/firststeps-ssl/#lets-encrypt-out-of-the-box to re-run the ACME plugin. Found lots of others complaining about this and recommendations to disable IP and HTTP checks. Don’t do that! Instead fix your NAT reflection rules so that your containers can talk to your external IP […]