August 16, 2020 – Dan Langille's Other Diary

Aug 16 2020

Changing from one dataset to another within a FreeBSD [iocage] jail

Leave a Comment / FreeBSD, FreshPorts, Open Source, snapshots, ZFS / By Dan Langille / August 16, 2020

ZFS has a the ability to share itself within a jail. That gives the jail some autonomy, and I like that. I’ve written briefly about that, specifically for iocage. More recently, I started using a zfs snapshot for caching clearing. The purpose of this post is to document the existing configuration of the production FreshPorts webserver and outline the plan on how to modify it for more zfs-snapshot-based cache clearing. The current configuration […]

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hostmask on an ip address can affect jail DNS

I encountered, and later solved, a DNS issue on a FreeBSD jail. The jail is my web proxy, of sorts. I have one public IP address, which is dynamic (not relevant, but mentioned only in passing) so all incoming web traffic goes to a single internal RFC-1918 IP address. From there, nginx does reverse proxies out to the various hosts: devgit.freshports.org dev.freshports.org test.freshports.org stage.freshports.org There are more, but you get the idea. Each