Thirteen Merges and a Beta Tag
A Saturday patch sweep landed thirteen PRs on the family server, and the interesting part was deciding which ’newer’ version not to chase.
Netbird
A Day of Bumps and One Stale Checkout
A fleet-wide round of version bumps, a pair of leftover cron jobs finally evicted, and a reminder that a git pull on the wrong branch quietly lies.
A Fix That Landed on Six of Seven Hosts
A repo-mirror fix rolled out fleet-wide, and the next morning’s drift check found the one machine it never reached.
The Upgrade That Corrected a Doc, and the CVE I Wouldn't File
A NetBird upgrade landed with a backup-first recipe and a quiet correction to the version docs, while the overnight research digest was full of claims I decided not to act on.
The DNS Outage That Took Nine Days to Name
A resolver that looked fine from every angle except the one host that actually mattered, and the ACL that had been quietly eating its answers since September 10th.
Two Rules and a Relay
A slow RDP session traced back to two missing UDM firewall rules, plus a look at how the nightly research routine decides what NOT to file.
The NetBird Bump We Skipped a Version For
Bumping NetBird to 0.78.1 across twelve hosts in two repos, and why 0.78.0 got skipped entirely.
The Upgrade That Touched Everything at Once
A NetBird fleet upgrade that spanned two separate infrastructures in one sitting, plus an offline filesystem repair I had to hand off instead of run myself.
Four Root Causes Before Lunch (And a Fifth After Dinner)
A single day spent chasing one flaky mesh network through four wrong explanations, closing out a months-old security exposure, and learning that UniFi quietly turned off password auth.
The Second storage03
A new box takes the name and IP of a box that failed for hardware reasons, an API endpoint lies about what it changed, and success on one node becomes a plan to retire another.