Planet Forklore

Aggregated blog posts from India's open source maintainers.

18 maintainers · 533 posts
Subscribe to RSS
Filter by author or tag

By Tag

A budget layover in Dubai

A few days ago, I had a layover in Dubai while returning from a fun DebConf in Kosovo. The layover was a bit longer than 24 hours. I was joined by my friend Abraham Raji, who had to go to Kochi, and had a layover of around 22 hours. Since my layover was longer than 24 hours, I n…

Trip to Prizren Bridge

Yesterday I went to Prizren stone bridge, which is in Prizren, Kosovo. Prizren is often referred to as the cultural capital of Kosovo. I am staying at the venue of DebConf 22 from where it is walkable distance, around 1.5 km. Prizren Stone bridge. I was going with my friends who…

Debugging DNS Issues in Nomad

At work, my colleagues and I stumbled upon a hair-pulling networking issue involving a specific problem when connecting to a Kafka cluster. We use the franz-go library in our Golang applications to interact with an external Kafka cluster. These Go apps are hosted inside a Nomad …

Complicated Kosovo Visa

DebConf is the annual conference of the Debian community. This year’s DebConf was held in Kosovo, a European country from the Balkans. DebConf22 logo Debian sponsored me for the conference. Indian attendees needed a visa to enter Kosovo, which got complicated due to Kosovo not h…

First Impressions of Albania

I landed in Tirana, Albania today, which is a country in the balkans region of the Europe. My first impressions are: Tirana is neat and clean city with beautiful landscapes surrounding it. Beautiful views at the Tirana airport just after landing. Tirana International Airport. Ta…

What is Debian

Debian as an operating system Debian desktop. Credits: Juliette Taka. License: CC-BY-SA-4.0. Source: Debian wiki. Debian GNU/Linux is a Free Software (software which respects user’s freedom to run, study, modify, share and share the modified versions) operating system. Debian is…

Albony.xyz Mirror

mirror.albony.xyz Currently mirroring 11 repositories. (archlinux, endeavouros, linuxmint, artixlinux, cachylinux, fdroid, manjaro, armbian, termux, blackarch and chaotic-aur) This mirror has 1Gbits/s bandwidth and it’s hosted in Nagpur, India. I get more than 14TB in traffic an…

APT mirror connection issue: IPv6

The Problem when I did sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y I noticed that it was trying to connect to the ubuntu mirror over IPv6 (and failing) My ISP hasn’t enabled IPv6 for me, so I can’t connect over IPv6. and I don’t have any IPv6 DNS servers. But still apt was trying to …