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Happy, as always, to answer any questions or discuss any comments here. Thanks again to Allan Jude of Klara Systems and Luke Young of bored.engineer for their

by rsync 5y ago

Happy, as always, to answer any questions or discuss any comments here. Thanks again to Allan Jude of Klara Systems and Luke Young of bored.engineer for their very interesting comments and explanations. (these tech notes were published in March of 2022 - they are backward looking to the events of Q4 2021)

tempnow987 5y ago
Site loading a bit lumpily for me for a minute there. Otherwise interesting write-up and pruning unused features I do think helps with security generally.
liberix 5y ago
Hi, the rsync.net website seems to be offline right now. Is there any other link where we can find the technical notes?
- rsync 5y ago
  site never went down but was perhaps slow for a brief moment ... try again, please ...
  - anarcat 5y ago
    it's still sluggish at the time of writing, FWIW.
- EvanAnderson 5y ago
  I had trouble loading it, too, but managed to get an archive.is capture: https://archive.ph/YEzR5 https://archive.ph/YEzR5
  - mattl 5y ago
    I can't get archive.ph to load but rsync.net loads fine...
pokstad 5y ago
Any news on adding the mkfifo command? I requested it a while back and it sounded like it was doable but I have not heard any updates.
- rsync 5y ago
  Thanks! mkfifo was included in this new command addition/whitelisting and we're going to write up an entire section on it next quarter. Can you email ? I actually searched for our conversation for a while and could not find it ... bottom line is that 'mkfifo' is in place and I can't wait to craft up some fascinating remote ssh examples with it ...
  - pokstad 5y ago
    Bumped our email thread, thanks! For everyone else, the mkfifo command lets you transfer arbitrary streams of data between two systems while using rsync.net as an intermediary.
    - dividuum 5y ago
      I’m slightly confused on why that would be useful within the rsync.net context. Is bouncing traffic a new intended use case?
      - pokstad 5y ago
        The big use case my colleague came up with was transferring a blob of information between two machines without exposing ports on either machine.
      - rsync 5y ago
        I don't know why you would want to run mkfifo, over ssh, on rsync.net. It makes me happy that it works.
benlivengood 5y ago
Is native encryption available on the send-capable accounts?
- rsync 5y ago
  Yes. ZFS encryption and raw send.
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by rsync 5y ago

tempnow987 5y ago

Site loading a bit lumpily for me for a minute there. Otherwise interesting write-up and pruning unused features I do think helps with security generally.

liberix 5y ago

Hi, the rsync.net website seems to be offline right now. Is there any other link where we can find the technical notes?

rsync 5y ago
site never went down but was perhaps slow for a brief moment ... try again, please ...
- anarcat 5y ago
  it's still sluggish at the time of writing, FWIW.
EvanAnderson 5y ago
I had trouble loading it, too, but managed to get an archive.is capture: https://archive.ph/YEzR5 https://archive.ph/YEzR5
- mattl 5y ago
  I can't get archive.ph to load but rsync.net loads fine...

pokstad 5y ago

Any news on adding the mkfifo command? I requested it a while back and it sounded like it was doable but I have not heard any updates.

rsync 5y ago
Thanks! mkfifo was included in this new command addition/whitelisting and we're going to write up an entire section on it next quarter. Can you email ? I actually searched for our conversation for a while and could not find it ... bottom line is that 'mkfifo' is in place and I can't wait to craft up some fascinating remote ssh examples with it ...
- pokstad 5y ago
  Bumped our email thread, thanks! For everyone else, the mkfifo command lets you transfer arbitrary streams of data between two systems while using rsync.net as an intermediary.
  - dividuum 5y ago
    I’m slightly confused on why that would be useful within the rsync.net context. Is bouncing traffic a new intended use case?
    - pokstad 5y ago
      The big use case my colleague came up with was transferring a blob of information between two machines without exposing ports on either machine.
    - rsync 5y ago
      I don't know why you would want to run mkfifo, over ssh, on rsync.net. It makes me happy that it works.

benlivengood 5y ago

Is native encryption available on the send-capable accounts?

rsync 5y ago
Yes. ZFS encryption and raw send.

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