Tag: Networking
All the articles with the tag "Networking".

Python3 One Line Web Server
Many times I find myself wanting to spin up a simple test service for a firewall rule. You can bring up a simple web server in Python3 from the command lin

OpenVPN Gnome Network Manager and OTP
If you're looking for the answer to how to get Gnome to connect to your OpenVPN using OTP, then you're going to come to a dead end. There's been an outstan

OpenVPN Client in the Background
With 2FA/MFA and OpenVPN on Linux you need to use the terminal to start up the session. sudo openvpn user.name.ovpn You then get to see all the prompts for

Consul Service Discovery & Nginx
Building a resilient set of web services (or microservices) means setting up a proxy that is able to dynamically set up "upstream" services when they are a

Apache Directory Studio - JNDI
Updated:I've never had a comfortable relationship with Java. Every time something goes a bit wrong in something that uses Java, I spend hours and even days trying

PowerDNS and ISC DHCPD
Updated:As we host lots of sites we have lot's of DNS. Currently it's a database driven old version of ISC BIND. There are certain tasks we need to do manually to

Nginx and Keepalived
Updated:I have a need to deploy a High Availability Load Balanced reverse proxy solution. We have a back end web service that requires resilience. To achieve this

dnsmasq CNAME problem
Updated:Today a chunk of the network CNAME resolutions failed. We looked at the config file /etc/dsmasq.d/dns-cname.conf and everything looked in order. A test of

Wired 802.1X on Linux
Updated:For a while I've been meaning to fix my workstation. When it comes to remote accessing it from home I find I can't because I've followed the green guidance

Ubiquiti Amplifi - Update
Updated:Following my previous article - Ubiquiti Amplifi . My brother decided he needed to improve his wireless LAN. He'd been using some Netgear range extenders f