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DNS trouble shooting for beginners

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Introduction DNS generally just works (at least as far as you’re concerned), which is good as the internet would be far less fun without it. However this does mean that many people don’t really know how to tell if a problem is a DNS error or something else – this makes life difficult for support desks and even worse causes work for DNS admins. It needn’t be so! Telling if something is a DNS issue is actually quite simple, and trouble shooting it isn’t much more difficult. To start with there are really only a very few ways that DNS can go wrong ( from a user perspective – from an admin perspective DNS can go wrong in many and varied ways ). Not responding at all Returning the wrong data Not returning a record when it should That from an end users point of view are really the only… Continue reading

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WD MyBrick

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These instructions were put together by Ouglee over on the WD forums. This copy is mainly just to make my life easier in case things go astray. If only because when hacking My Cloud I’ve needed these a few times. If you think you have bricked your WD My Cloud or are getting a lot of errors, Do not turn it off a lot of the time running processes will be fine so you should be able to copy all your data off first. Once you’ve power cycled it if it doesn’t come back retrieving all that data is far more hassle. Also there were some differences in what I saw and did which I’ll note here. When running gparted make a note of the end of your data partition as it saves time later on In step 16 I was asked for an “end” as well as a start.… Continue reading

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Credential free, anonymous system access

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I suspect that in this day and age where very few services are made available via telnet and SSH that this document is of limited use. However I need the notes and it may help out someone else. Anonymous access to services these days isn’t that common, and the traditional approach has always been to use a published username and password. I’ve never been that keen on such an approach as it means the account has to have a valid password and thus be locked out of every other service on the machine, also it means that you present a slightly greater window for people to try to send you malicious data. Because of this I rather prefer to just not ask for credentials on public services. So if you want to allow people to connect to a system via SSH or telnet (Yes I know telnet isn’t secure and… Continue reading

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Yet another “How to Chroot” article

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There are loads of “how to set up chroot” guides out there, and this is yet another one as I had to piece together quite a few to get things to work they way I needed them to and to my liking. So as I need to make notes for when I inevitably need to set this up again I figure I may as well share those notes. Hopefully this well be a suitably idiot guide. This is written for a Ubuntu system so on other systems your mileage may vary. The basics I’m going to break this down to the first steps that are vital for getting any chroot jail to work and then look at making it useful. But even these basic steps could probably be made even more minimal if you really wanted to. For the purpose of these notes just assume that every command is either… Continue reading