BIND DNS Security Hole Workaround
There has been a recent discovery that affects BIND DNS servers. A nameserver can be locked up if it can be induced to load a specially crafted combination…
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Access remote disk over net using SFTP protocol and map it to local drive letter – SFTP Net Drive
SFTP Net Drive lets you create a virtual drive on your local computer that will expose the remote file system accessible via SFTP protocol. http://www.eldos.com/sftp-net-drive/ I have found…
Testing Disk in Linux using fio
I recently discovered a utility called fio that allows you to benchmark disk subsystem in Linux. Here are the results for this test. What is fio? fio is…
libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work
Trying to get ManageEngine Service Desk Plus to run on Debian Linux Wheezy AMD64 and I got the following error: libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work…
Cacti Cisco ASA Host Template
Came across a decent host template for Cisco ASA devices that works well with Cacti. Grab the CISCO-FIREWALL-MIB if you don’t already have them. Get either Version 1…
Basic Samba Setup on Debian Squeeze
Notes on how I setup Samba on a test server to play around. This was a quick setup to give a basic outline of how to get this…
How to null route an IP or subnet in Linux
Quick tip for null routing an IP or subnet in Linux. My method I’ve always used is: route add -host 1.2.3.4 reject For a subnet: route add -net…
New Linux Server Build
I finished up a new linux server build tonight. Migrated WordPress, DNS, mail, FTP and a handful of other services to this new server as well as installing…
ttyrec Playback using jsttyplay and WordPress
So I spent a little bit of time tonight tinkering on Linux. I got interested in tty recording/playback after seeing some nethack things. I figured if I could…
MySQL Performance Analysis and Tuning Resources
Came across a few useful websites with miscellaneous MySQL performance/configuration analysis/testing tools. http://www.day32.com/MySQL/ http://hackmysql.com/mysqlsla http://www.maatkit.org/doc/ http://blog.mysqltuner.com/ Continue reading
Debian Handbook
I have added the Debian Handbook to my Resources navigation menu. The handbook is available at: https://techish.net/debian-handbook/ You can install it on your Debian system (available in Unstable):…
Limit Bandwidth in Apache2
Limit bandwidth with Apache using the libapache2-mod-bw package which installs mod-bw. Install Package apt-get install libapache2-mod-bw Load Module a2enmod bw Modify Apache's configuration Add the following in the…
Using Pipe Viewer for File Progress in Linux
There are numbers of ways of producing a file copy, compression, deletion, decompression dialog progress in Linux. I was looking for a new way of doing it (yes,…
Bind9 Wildcard DNS
Decided instead of managing all the DNS records for techish.net. that I would just setup wildcard entry for techish.net. In my zone master file, I added the following:…
My .screenrc
I'm bored, so here's what my current .screenrc is (screenshot included). backtick 1 60 60 /usr/local/bin/checkmail.pl hardstatus alwayslastline hardstatus string '%{= kW}%-Lw%{= KW}%50>%n%f* %t%{= kW}%+Lw%< %{= kG}%-=[Mail: %1`]…