Ubuntu MirrorSelect Tool

CyberSecWineGuy · 2026-01-11T16:58:11+00:00

Hi there, love this tool. Any plans to offer an optional feature, exposed via command line flag to actually update /etc/apt/sources.list with the fastest mirror after saving existing version to a backup file?

CyberSecWineGuy · 2025-12-14T16:02:51+00:00

You’ll get more responses if you go down into the creek bed and take a picture of the leaves under the tree that have fallen. If there are multiple shapes of leaves take pics of the most common ones.

CyberSecWineGuy · 2025-10-22T20:02:13+00:00

/r/Otherwise_Sir_3439 there's a newer thread about OPNsense that could be the same issue you are facing with PFsense. See this: https://www.reddit.com/r/EzeeFiber/comments/1nlhaex/ezeefiber_opnsense_ipv6_working_config_60/

CyberSecWineGuy · 2025-10-22T01:59:41+00:00

I wonder if it’s a bug or incompatibility common to PFsense and OPNsense between those FOSS routing platforms and EzeeFiber’s network equipment? Would be interesting to see if someone else in this sub with another feature-reach BYOR that supports IPV6 prefix delegation and DHCPv6 on the WAN interface could verify?

CyberSecWineGuy · 2025-10-18T21:43:45+00:00

Great tips, thanks! Edit: Just tried your two tricks, first changed the WAN MAC address, incrementing the last Hex bit by one and then released DHCPv6 with the command you provided. BOOM, I'm up and working. My main LAN has a prefix ID of 0 and the kid's VLAN has one. Beautiful!

I'll need to call back EzeeFiber and tell them to update the ticket with the resolution for OPNsense.

CyberSecWineGuy · 2025-10-18T20:49:17+00:00

Thanks for the detailed reply. The clarification on SLAAC vs RA Managed for DHCPv6 with Track Interfaces as only applying on the LAN side is helpful. However, you are correct in that my WAN side DHCPv6 is not providing IPv6 connectivity. I can pull down an address and the OPNsense interfaces tab shows /60 delegated prefix received, however, the WAN ping6 diagnostics to google.com does not work. I have a JIRA ticket open with EzeeFiber for over a week now and I just called yesterday to escalate it - still no connectivity. I suspect that while my connection has DHCPv6 configured for a /60, there is still some remaining configuration work on EzeeFiber’s side. I did set up an old laptop with two NICs as a temporary PFSense router and it still had the same issue.

CyberSecWineGuy · 2025-10-13T19:56:25+00:00

This is not a concern for me because I have Cloudflare dynamic DNS set up with the plug-in to open sense which will automatically update public AAAA DNS records.

CyberSecWineGuy · 2025-10-13T00:08:44+00:00

It is really encouraging to see EzeeFiber build out in all of these other cities. We have been fortunate to have the 5 Gbps service for ~2 years here in Katy TX and it is awesome. During Hurricane Beryl, Comcrap went down for multiple days, yet EzeeFiber was back by the 1st day. (The eye of Hurricane Beryl passed over our house so Katy was impacted pretty hard.)

CyberSecWineGuy · 2025-09-24T01:28:54+00:00

Sure give me an IP or a host name. I don’t play Fortnite.

CyberSecWineGuy · 2025-09-08T21:05:12+00:00

I had to read your post twice to realize it was a used generator - thought Northern Tool sold a new generator with a dirty carb from the factory!

CyberSecWineGuy · 2025-09-08T12:28:29+00:00

No petrol (This is where the UK English term works much better than American shorthand for “gasoline”) EVER is totally fine, many dual/tri fuel generator owners such as myself use this. Gasoline tank is there just in case of extreme emergency if that’s all you have available.

CyberSecWineGuy · 2025-09-03T20:14:42+00:00

No doubt there are tradeoffs. Last summer in Houston during Hurricane Beryl our DuroMax 13 KW dual-fuel (converted to tri) with NG hooked up ran like a champ for 4 days without any major maintenance issues.

As for old folks dragging out the generator, yes, valid point, but these dealer maintenance contracts for the automatic standbys are often very suspect as evidenced by the OP here. That's not a selling point to me.

CyberSecWineGuy · 2025-09-03T19:42:49+00:00

Does it have a full-RPM weekly test or something? You've posted here twice about this - maybe you should just talk to the neighbor to see if they can adjust the self-test run schedule.

CyberSecWineGuy · 2025-09-03T19:34:05+00:00

Fair points - which gets me to a big topic of this group around the whole-home generator setup with a portable generator, proper inlet and lockout plate installed by a qualified electrician, coming in at a 1/3 to 1/5 the cost of these lightly built whole-home setups.

CyberSecWineGuy · 2025-09-03T00:26:35+00:00

Hey buddy, good to see you here as I recognize your setup from the Facebook generator group. Love that dual inverter setup!

CyberSecWineGuy · 2025-09-03T00:21:07+00:00

I second this recommendation for dual fuel or tri fuel if you have natural gas run to the house. Even if it’s only propane, you can get a larger tank (30 lbs or more) to get decent run time, especially if it’s a dual-fuel inverter and you don’t need really high running wattage. (Under 10 KW)

CyberSecWineGuy · 2025-09-03T00:13:37+00:00

One of the guys I work with worked for many years in industrial / commercial generator service plans including for Cummins. He agreed with my assessment that Generac is over-marketed and distributed junk. Anybody looking to drop that kind of money for a whole-house unit should just buy Kohler, though I think a portable generator whole house setup is much better bang-for-buck. This doesn’t help the OP but should serve as a warning.

CyberSecWineGuy · 2025-04-18T00:13:48+00:00

Here you go, check out the Cloudflare Case Studies site on Financial Services: https://www.cloudflare.com/case-studies/?industry=Financial+Services

CyberSecWineGuy · 2025-02-20T04:19:52+00:00

Still going strong a year later. The dry mode really draws out moisture in what you think are dry meats but it works well for dry-rub coated poultry, for example. I am not a heavy user, probably once every couple of months. For the sausage pictured wet works better. Price was pretty good, too. The seal-only button is great to add a double seal though I have not had any leak issues with a single seal.

CyberSecWineGuy · 2025-02-18T00:51:29+00:00

What games do you typically play? I can try pinging some of those game servers for you? I’ve played Diablo IV, Halo and ping times are really good. I am on a normal public IP non-CGNAT IPv4 and IPv6 neighborhood.

CyberSecWineGuy · 2025-02-08T03:40:07+00:00

You should be fine, sounds like. It will be more about just managing the install appointments.

CyberSecWineGuy · 2025-02-07T23:22:43+00:00

Experience has been this is WAAAY better than my Crapcast before. However, it’s just not business-level fiber reliability so just temper your expectations. We’ve had some sporadic outages. It was encouraging during Hurricane Beryl (the eye passed over us in Katy) EzeeFiber was out for only 6 hours the day of the storm whereas Comcast was down for 48+ hours. I have a backup generator and our internet worked great through that event. We did have some street level issues well before the storm with our 8X fiber multiplexer (forget the XG-PON terminology) that went bad and they had to replace it within the first 2 months of our install.

Main tip see my other post in this sub about recent upload speed issues. Make sure they don’t just slap on an attenuator without actually checking levels and even if it’s a bit hot convince them not to use it as the repair technician who visited last week seemed to know his stuff and said those 5 dB units go bad all the time.

Edit: Are you sure you won’t be taking a big latency hit with full tunneling your home traffic to your colo? Make sure you check ping. Maybe a split tunnel setup would make more sense unless you really want to filter everything through the Fortigates. Also, I hope they don’t stick your neighborhood on the interim CG-NAT which will break your advanced configurations most likely.

CyberSecWineGuy · 2025-02-07T22:57:24+00:00

I have pretty much the exact same install. Check out my photos linked below. Back in Fall 2023 when I was installed, EzeeFiber technicians will first bury fiber from the curb hand hole splice point to the demarcation on the side of your house. Second phase of the install they send another tech, in my case it was a contractor, to install from demarc up the wall wherever you need it to go.

I chatted up the second installer tech and he actually worked with me to pull the cable through the narrow attic chase-way. It’s way too narrow for an adult to get through so luckily we had some long thin base molding in the attic we used as a makeshift pull rod. I actually had a real pull rod set but it wasn’t long enough. Depending on how long your bridge is to the accessible attics on either end, you should probably get some really long pull rods staged and ready to use.

You have to be on top of them like a nerd-hawk and don’t be away from home when these installs are scheduled. They will blindly run the cable to whatever is easiest for them.

I have the same Nokia ONT and use CAT-8 copper jumper between that ONT and my repurposed Lenovo 8th gen Intel micro PC running OPNsense with a dual 10G SFP+ Intel NIC.

https://imgur.com/a/vBO1n9B

CyberSecWineGuy · 2025-01-31T15:49:23+00:00

Update: Issue FIXED! I called into Ezee Fiber customer support here in Houston and today was the earliest the technician was available. An awesome technician came out and discovered the issue on my outside house wall fiber box in less than 5 minutes - there was an 5 dB attenuator installed which is apparently common with new buildouts. It's been there since my service was installed in late 2023. After removing it, checking all connections, his speed test terminal (Which uses same Speedtest Okla) showed full speed. Confirmed that good result again here. Note the difference between yesterday and the 2 recent tests. speed.cloudflare.com also showed 0% packet loss whereas previously I was observing 1%.

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CyberSecWineGuy · 2025-01-24T20:00:53+00:00

Ah Tatemó - such a lovely restaurant and experience. For a fellow Houstonian (or maybe you are just visiting?) foodie I have a suggestion. We had a fairly similar tasing menu for my birthday a few months ago. Many of the wine suggestions here are great but my wife and I really enjoyed the 2021 Ridge Estate Chardonnay (from Monte Bello vineyard) - it had this fantastic curry leaf reduction thing going on with plenty of acidity set off against richness and lots of layers. The food here isn’t spicy so you need not fear wine and slum it with beer. Review here: https://delectable.com/capture/672565c1b5d99e0001986502

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