I’m at CCSP today, my name is in the list of presenters for two sessions, but I’m really only talking at one session.

Actual streaming clients

One of the “services” I’m responsible for has been floating adrift for a couple of years without any real users. When it was handed to me, it came with a directive to support the campus Multimedia Users Group, and we are starting to ramp up. There will be a dry-run, proof-of-concept event streamed live April 10th at 4:00 pm. You’ll need Real Player or Real Alternative (preferred) to watch it. Hopefully I’ll have a URL posted here later today…

I kind of have to note the fact that I can, and have, posted a note on the CITES status server.

Of course, it’s not for the service I was hired to manage, but that’s a different discussion.

The last few days at work have put the DNS RFP on the back burner and pushed me towards learning lots of new terms: DID, PSAP, NANP and ACD.

So far, the setup for the eval seems to be going well, the onsite technical guy from the vendor knows his stuff and the right people to call when he doesn’t know the answer. We’ve had a couple bumps in the road from Ameritech, T1 PRIs and the goofyness that is the campus Centrex system. But, we’re working around them and hopefully deploying phones to ~15 people between now and Friday. Shoretel essentially sent us one of every product they make in the VoIP sector, and we’re trying to put it all to good use.

Hopefully, I’ll remember to post about the outcome of this evaluation, assuming I’m allowed to by the NDA I have to sign at some point.

So, you want to turn a 14,000 line logfile with 9300 lines like the following, into a summary of the most often seen ip addresses?
Oct 23 01:04:36 nameserver.dept.uiuc.edu in.named[26133]: [ID 873579 local1.warning] client 192.168.0.4#52241: no more recursive clients: quota reached
Oct 23 01:04:36 nameserver.dept.uiuc.edu in.named[26133]: [ID 873579 local1.warning] client 192.168.0.5#52241: no more recursive clients: quota reached

Here’s your one-liner, showing just the top 10 hitters
cat /services/dns/log/named.20061023 | grep 'quota' | tr -s " " | cut -d " " -f 10 | perl -pi -e 's/(.*)#.*/$1/' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail
and it’s output:
161 192.168.254.29
163 192.168.5.119
167 192.168.172.72
201 192.168.5.12
223 192.168.5.138
257 192.168.0.7
298 192.168.181.2
307 192.168.0.9
905 192.168.252.5
2630 192.168.252.4


Yay, I got my new laptop.