Sysadmin 101 workshop for new relay operators

BSD George shared his proposal of running a sysadmin 101 workshop for new relay operators. We should find:

a) Possible dates (April?)
b) Find a linuxy facilitator
c) Discuss the training outline

Relay Operator - Sysadmin 101

• who are you?

  • running a relay/bridge
  • want to do it right

• but ask first: is running a relay on your own the right thing to do?

  • find others to run with, affinity, university, etc
  • start small... a bridge at home/vps
  • if not, donate to the TPO

• general diversity

  • ideal: 1 op/node (instead..), All OSs (not just linux), all AS (US/EU), bare metal (mostly VPS?)

• which OS?

  • diversity versus familiarity
  • use the OS you can secure and maintain

• running a publicly accessible internet service

• patching/upgrading

• connectivity: residential v commercial hosting

• DNS: A records, PTR, resolv.conf

• logs

• SSHD: zombies, keys

• NTPD not rdate or ntpdate

• single-purpose

• not multi-user

• DNS

• optimizing