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Squid3 changes for Debian Jessie
I upgraded our Squid3 proxy server to Debian Jessie today. The process as usual was pretty painless until the Squid3 service tried to restart. Then I saw w

Can't ping using FQDN
I've run across this a few times now. It seems every time I do a big Linux upgrade I lose the ability to connect to an internal server using its FQDN. I ca

Fail2ban - Quick Reference
List your jails: $ sudo fail2ban-client status Show a particular jails status: $ sudo fail2ban-client status [JAILNAME] Unban an IP Address from the jail:

SSH - no matching key exchange method
Updated:Trying to logon to some older network switch management interfaces I came across a failure due to them using older SHA1 key exchanges and key types. Thankf

Debian 9, SAMBA broke my Shares
Updated:I updated my workstation to Debian 9 (stretch) today and immediately after could no longer connect to any of my Windows fileshares. Guessing this was proba

VMware Horizon Client on Debian Stretch
Updated:In order to install the client on Debian 9 (stretch) I've had to get libpng12-0 installed from Jessie here: https://packages.debian.org/en/jessie/amd64/lib

Juniper HA Woes
I spent quite some time messing around with a pair of Juniper SRX320's trying to get the HA clustering setup. The documentation seems pretty straight forwa

apt-get - Hash Sum mismatch
I tried to run some updates on my workstation today and it failed with a Hash Sum mismatch. $ sudo apt-get update W: Failed to fetch http://www.deb-multime

Unable to Logon as admin
Updated:I managed to bork one of our test switches today. I was in the process of enabling "netlogin" using RADIUS as the authentication method, when I must have i

Bye, bye, Percona
For quite a few years we'd been running Percona on our Nagios server with no issues. So no reason to change, until sometime over the past few days the repo