Penguicon and Git

Penguicon 4.0 is here (tomorrow), and I'll be giving a talk on Git
at 11pm. There should be a bunch of interesting things going on there, and free beer.

Spanning tree and NFS

For the record, the fact that Debian's startup tends to fail in the presence of smart switches that try to do spanning-tree detection gets really annoying when you have production machines that depend on NFS servers being available.

Technically, this would be solvable by building a proper hosts file on each server, but that's what DNS is for.

So, I'm going to try a script like this on each server during the startup sequence, to try to delay the startup until the default gateway comes up: