https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=makiniq0zHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:35:10 +0000Cockpit has a "remote" host connection feature solving this exact pain-point - "Just point me to a server": You install the Cockpit web service on one host (along with its backend and extensions), and on other hosts you may have - install only the backend of the stack (4-7 packages available via deb backports & other dist repos). The web front host is then able to access any other machine via ssh (if keys and policies permit that) and display info or manage that host. All ports aside from the web front and ssh between your hosts remain as is. It is a decentralized design.

]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:38:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48726272makiniq0zhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48726272https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48726272Instead of running local resolvers for caching, they should have used nscd DNS cache to decrease the volume of queries from those machines running the logs tasks. nscd is not designed for that, but is long known to have this best-use practice: https://prefetch.net/blog/2011/03/27/configuring-nscd-to-cac...

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