endlessh was pretty cool and a more modern version is even better ! I’ll give it a shot !
On a side note, I found a way to trap HTTP connections too while working on my cyb.farm project. The go implementation is ridiculously simple: tarpit.go. It works by providing an endless stream of custom headers to the client, which it is supposed to ingest before getting to the content itself.
I didn’t come up with this idea myself, this is straight from OpenBSD disk setup guide (which I personally trust as a good source of info) :
Encrypting External Disks
This section explains how to set up a cryptographic softraid volume for an external USB drive. An outline of the steps is as follows:
- Overwrite the drive’s contents with random data
[…]
# dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/rsd3c bs=1m
/usr/share/language/pack/français: Permission refusée
Well as I see it, it will just do a lot of write operations to your disk, which might eventually damage it if you do it a lot (just like any write operation done on a disk). However, this specific command isn’t bad per se, and is even technically a good thing to do for preparing to full disk encryption.
sudo cat is pointless here, better do
</dev/urandom sudo tee /dev/sd*
As a bonus it’ll scramble your terminal 💪
Nevermind I figured it out, you gotta use sudo for it to work properly !
Nevermind I figured what went wrong, I mistyped it initially ! It would have been much easier to copy paste it if it wasn’t a picture…
Fun fact, the command displays a nice cat picture in ASCII :)
Edit: screenshot
I just tried your command and it yields a lot of Permission denied. Is it expected or your command is incomplete ?
I tried but got an error:
:& : Command not found
Is it expected ? Did I type something wrong ? I’m confused…
I messed up, that’s the opposite actually ^^
I’m reading all the comments and I’m shocked… In France, with uncapped access and 1Gbps down/600Mbps up (theorical) I pay 40€/mo (30€ every six month when I call to complain that it’s too expensive). And it’s definitely not the cheapest provider.
That’s insane !
That’s cheap indeed. Is it possible to install a different OS than those listed on their website ?
I’ll look more into FUSE based remote storage more generally because it seems to be my only option besides NFS. I’ve heard great feedback from SSHFS so I’ll bench it eventually and see how it goes.
My main issue with NFS is that it’s been unreliable in my case (multiple servers connected over wireguard, over internet). Which cause locks and latency for the applications that read/write to it (Matrix server, distributed repository, …).
Of course if you can afford connecting the NFS server directly to the servers, that’s perfect but I’m more on the worst case scenario ^^
Ok thanks, so it’s similar to rclone mount, just with another tool.
How do you mount it ?
How do you use them ? Do you mount the bucket locally on the server ?
I didn’t know about their storage box. That’s interesting, thanks !
The real answer here.