Equipment/Boole

Boole
Model	Nexcom DNA1110
Sub-category	Systems
Status	Good working order
Training requirement	yes
Training link	Unknown
ACnode	no
Owner	LHS
Origin	donation from Tgreer
Location	Basement rack.
Maintainers	Sysadmin team

A 1U Intel Atom machine in the rack in the basement, specs etc here

Is our core router, has both FTTC lines connected to it. DHCP and DNS server. Runs the spacefed node for the space and is an ldap server.

Also a netboot server, provides:

• Diskless i386 and amd64 debian wheezy
• Rescue and Install for debian wheezy.
• partition magic
• memtest
• dban
• Voyage (a minimised debian disto that can run from readonly media) Warning : the Voyage auto install kernel will reformat things they are booted on without prompting.

Also runs ansible for setting up machines in the space.

Issues

On boot unbound can fail to start due to ipv6 dad not finishing in time for it to bind to it's ipv6 address, see this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/11/msg00038.html I added sleep 10 to the unboudn init scripts.

We have have installed the latest versio of the rp-pppoe ppp plugin so we can use a 1508 byte mtu to avoid having to do mss clamping.

using Ansible with a Rasbperry Pi

dd raspbian image (use the 02-09 one to avoid usb issues)
boot pi
watch dhcp logs on boole
ssh pi@ip
passwd: raspberry

sudo raspi-config
update it
expand filesystem
change password
boot to console
advanced options -> hostname

cd /etc/network
edit interfaces to get a static ip
reboot

log into boole with ssh keys forwarded

add hostname to dns
add hostname to /etc/ansible/hosts in both the [lhshosts] and [rpis]
sections, and [doorbot] if it's a doorbot, make the syslocation="something sensible"

then:

if it's a replacement for an old machine then
ssh-keygen -R hostname
ssh-keygen -R hostname.lan.london.hackspace.org.uk
ssh-keygen -R ipv4 address (?)
ssh-keygen -R ipv6 address (?)

then:

cd /etc/ansible
ansible -v -s -u pi -k  -m command -a "apt-get -y install python-apt" "hostname*"
ansible-playbook -u pi -s -k -l "perlman*" lhs/site.yml

The 2nd one will add our users, ssh keys, packages, etc etc.

notes:

not sure how resolv.conf gets setup, I thought having:

iface eth0 inet static
        [...]
        dns-nameservers 172.31.24.2
        dns-search lan.london.hackspace.org.uk

would sort it, but maybe that dosn't and we got lucky from dhcp?

the dns stuff in /etc/network/interfaces appears to be bogus and resolv.conf needs to be
done manually, add to ansible.