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Emergency procedure

Only do this in emergencies, such as when eth2 is not syncing or RAM/CPU use is spiking. This procedure can be used for Prysm or Lighthouse.

The specific client versions mentioned here are for RocketPool 0.0.8. They will not work in prior versions of RP.

Edit config.yml:

cd ~/.rocketpool

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Medalla non-finality mid October

What is happening with the Medalla eth2 testnet currently, Oct 17th 2020? Here's an ELI5. (Not exactly 5. Maybe 10. You get the idea.)

1. A bunch of validators turned off (maybe zinken, maybe bored, who knows)
2. We entered non-finality. This means we don't have enough validators online to agree to what the state of the network is. We need 2/3rds.
3. Some sync bugs reared their heads, in Prysm and Nimbus. We lost more validators to the bugs, not everyone has updated since
4. Non-finality increases memory and CPU requirements, we likely lost more validators because their nodes couldn't handle it
5. Either people come back in and we regain finality or
6. They don't and offline validators lose eth faster and faster, until we regain finality. Some may be ejected if their balance falls too low.

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Use ufw for some, but not all, Docker traffic

This is a slight tweak to https://github.com/chaifeng/ufw-docker by way of https://p1ngouin.com/posts/how-to-manage-iptables-rules-with-ufw-and-docker

For an automated way of handling ufw rules via docker-compose, see https://github.com/shinebayar-g/ufw-docker-automated

Use case

I wanted Docker to keep managing its own iptables rules, including automatically opening port forwards, with the option of stepping in and restricting a port that I did not want open to "world". Container-to-container traffic should flow unimpeded,

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Overview

Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 supports a single ZFS boot drive out of the box. I wanted a ZFS mirror, without going through an entirely manual setup of Ubuntu as described by OpenZFS in their instructions for Ubuntu 20.04 and instructions for Ubuntu 22.04

This adds a mirror to an existing Ubuntu ZFS boot drive after the fact. It's been tested on Ubuntu 20.04 by me and all the way up to Ubuntu 22.10 by users in comments.

ZFS requires native encryption to be added at pool / dataset creation. Ubuntu 22.04 supports this during installation. Whether these instructions are suitable for mirroring such a setup has not been tested. For Ubuntu 20.04, these instructions are not suitable for creating an encrypted ZFS boot disk, please use the full instructions linked above for that. You can, however, add an en

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/u/settleddown posted some excellent instructions on how to create your own BloxStaking KeyVault instance in AWS and keep it updated yourself.

I've adjusted these instructions to "take over" the existing instance, without needing to spin up an entirely new one. The Python script now prompts the user for the password.

NB: pip3 is very slow on WSL2. This can be resolved by running pip3 install -U keyring, and then mkdir -p ~/.config/python_keyring/ and edit vi ~/.config/python_keyring/keyringrc.cfg and paste into it:

[backend]
default-keyring=keyring.backends.null.Keyring

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Eh?

So a FOSS project might have signed releases with a GPG sig. How do you verify it on a Linux machine?

Example sigp/lighthouse, but same idea for any project.

Install gpg: sudo apt install gpg

Grab their PGP key ID from their download page and gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv THEIRKEYID and wait

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Resizing a netcup VPS disk after upgrading the contract to a bigger one

From Server Control Panel

Boot rescue image

• Change boot order to network first: Settings -> Boot Order, Save
• Control -> Shutdown. Use Forced Poweroff if Shutdown doesn't work.
• Boot into rescue system: Media, "Rescue System" tab, Enable Rescue System. Take note of root pw
• Control -> Start

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am yorickdowne on github.
• I am yorickdowne (https://keybase.io/yorickdowne) on keybase.
• I have a public key ASAMH3gm5u914DMwcR4DXVgPeCKqlPdP9Tdurg-LiKUzVQo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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Note: PBSS in Geth >=1.13.0 removes the need to prune manually.

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Old content for reference

Overview

Geth (Go-Ethereum) as of July 2022 takes about 650 GiB of space on a fast/snap sync, and then grows by ~ 14 GiB/week with default cache, ~ 8 GiB/week with more cache.

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Overview

Running on netcup is not much different from running on any other Linux host. The main difference is that the host is directly exposed to the Internet, and that it is provisioned with Debian, not Ubuntu, to begin with.

Install Ubuntu

In netcup's customer control panel, Overview, click on "SCP Auto-Login". This gets you into their Server Control Panel.

In netcup's server control panel, choose Media on the left, and the Images tab. Select the Ubuntu 20.04 image and install it, partitioning the whole disk. The "SCP password" being asked for here is the password for the Server Control Panel, which you received in a welcome email when first signing up with netcup.