How to protect against a DDOS In order to block a distributed denial of service DDOS attack you have several ways to go about it. 1) Block the requests at the reverse proxy level You can stop a ...
Network boot with pxe and ipxe
Introduction Network boot has existed since the 1980s and I never really found it important enough to ever bother. Perhaps boredom played a role here but looking back I’m glad I gave it a shot. Fi...
SSO part 3 Wireless network Access Control and VLANs
Introduction We previously set up a single sign on system with the windows active directory, unifi switches, unifi access points, authentik as the OIDC provider and freeradius. I was able to get w...
Automating our backups
Introduction If we had a top #10 in system administration, backups would have to be one of the least sexy topics. That being said you’ll count your blessings once disaster hits and you are able to...
Comptia Network+ (N10-008) course notes
Introduction And another one in the box. Learned a lot of new concepts and it was also a great way to refresh my networking knowledge. This course is given by Keith Barker on CBT nuggets. The purp...
Productivity on gnu/linux
Introduction I’ve spent long hours studying and refreshing my knowledge of linux in the past months so I feel I need to lighten up the atmosphere a bit and turn down the technical complexity. This...
Comptia Linux+ (XK0-005) course notes
Introduction This course is given by John McGovern on CBT nuggets. The purpose of this document is to summarize some of the key learnings I got from it. Linux, Partitions, Disk Overview of the b...
April's fool
Introduction Thought I would write a diary entry with my two blunders of the week. The first one is related to a ceph cluster manipulation that killed a live production server on a busy thursday m...
Windows print server
Introduction This is a quick write up on a couple of different ways to set up a print server on a windows environment. There are generally two ways of going about this. Either add the required ser...
Home automation
Introduction This article won’t be as technical as other ones in here but I figured it would be interesting regardless. Prices have in general shot up in the last couple of years here in europe so...