Category Archives: Internet

Punching holes in Firewalls

Posted on November 16, 2008 by Chris

It is a lot easier than you think. OpenSSH, which can only be described as the best utility of all time, is quite a versatile tool one feature people use frequently is port forwarding. This allows you to open a … Continue reading →

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Blocking SSH Brute Force attempts using iptables

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Chris

After my recent break in I have looked into ways of protecting SSH and my server resources. I employ fail2ban on my main server, it has the resources to run such a programme – my Linksys NSLU2′s however do not. … Continue reading →

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Confession

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Chris

So today I come to you with a confession, I discovered one of my boxen had been successfully attacked and the attacker had by the looks of things used it for launching DDoS attacks. I feel particularly stupid because the … Continue reading →

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Ekiga VoIP client and SIPGate

Posted on November 29, 2007 by Chris

Ekiga is a VoIP client for GNOME. I recently registered with SIPGate.co.uk as I am planning to have a go at setting up Asterisk sometime in the near future. Sadly it wasn’t a well documented process and after searching Google, … Continue reading →

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Subversion and Apache Gotcha

Posted on November 29, 2007 by Chris

So, this is the second time I have tried to address the problem I was getting with some Subversion repositories I was trying to configure to be served by Apache. I was trying to use the SVNPath directive to serve … Continue reading →

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Another Thunderbird Tip

Posted on November 22, 2007 by Chris

Thunderbird’s default sorting is the wrong way around, IMHO. This has always annoyed me, I found out how to reverse it.

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The Day the Routers Died…

Posted on November 14, 2007 by Chris

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Thunderbird Tip

Posted on October 26, 2007 by Chris

So for ages I have been using Thunderbird combined with server side mail sorting, what has been annoying me for a year or so is that Thunderbird only checks the Inbox folder. I had to manually check all the others … Continue reading →

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Packages

Posted on July 15, 2007 by Chris

I have been playing with packaging for Ubuntu and Debian for a while now and I have one fairly useful package called rsnapshot-scripts which contains a bunch of scripts for use with rsnapshot. It allows you to backup other data … Continue reading →

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Debian, Postfix and DKIM

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Chris

So how do I get Postfix to verify and sign messages with the DKIM system, under Debian? Here is how. First we need to install the dependencies. $ sudo aptitude install libdigest-sha{,1}-perl libemail-{address,mime-encodings}-perl libnet-{dns,server}-perl libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl liberror-perl make libmailtools-perl $ sudo … Continue reading →

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