{"id":2891,"date":"2021-11-27T14:56:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T19:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=2891"},"modified":"2021-11-28T21:12:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T02:12:38","slug":"small-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=2891","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the Little Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Small things make me happy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I run a local Active Directory domain on my home network with a Samba back-end.\u00b9 Over the past few weeks I&#8217;ve been building out a second domain controller, but I didn&#8217;t have 100% replication &#8211; it replicated AD and DNS, but not DHCP.\u00b2<\/p>\n<p>After a short outage yesterday (due to an update) I decided that this <em>had<\/em> to change.\u00a0 So I:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>followed the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.samba.org\/index.php\/Configure_DHCP_to_update_DNS_records\">instructions<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li>realized that the instructions were out of date,<\/li>\n<li>figured out the correct procedure,<\/li>\n<li>completed my setup, and<\/li>\n<li>submitted a revision to the wiki.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s a small step, but I&#8217;m such a nerd that I&#8217;m riding high &#8211; one, because I&#8217;ve scratched an itch and have redundancy in my domain; and two, that I&#8217;ve visibly contributed something useful to open source (small as it may be).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\u00b9 For along time it was powered by a single Raspberry Pi, but keeping that up to date became a struggle because it&#8217;s a little <em>too<\/em> low-powered.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s all another story.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b2 This isn&#8217;t a completely useless situation.\u00a0 It&#8217;s much easier to recover from a domain-controller crash if you still have a standing domain controller.\u00a0 (A solo-domain-controller recovery is much more complicated recovery.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small things make me happy. I run a local Active Directory domain on my home network with a Samba back-end.\u00b9 Over the past few weeks I&#8217;ve been building out a second domain controller, but I didn&#8217;t have 100% replication &#8211; it replicated AD and DNS, but not DHCP.\u00b2 After a short outage yesterday (due to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=2891\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s the Little Things&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[137,654,83,655,653,566],"class_list":["post-2891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","tag-dad-forgot-his-meds-again","tag-dhcp","tag-linux","tag-nerding-out","tag-open-source","tag-samba"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o3FW-KD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2891"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2903,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891\/revisions\/2903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}