School Sysadmin

This blog follows my exploits as a one time Network Architect / Systems Administrator / IT Manager at a university in South Africa. When you've RTFMd, and it didn't help, WABM!

Tuesday, 21 November 2017

Weak defaults in IIS 8 cryptography (TLS/HTTPS/SSL)

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So, this isn't exactly a breaking news headline. IIS isn't the most secure web server in the universe. However, it came as a shock t...
Monday, 23 October 2017

RTFM: Speeding up your (Fortigate) firewall performance

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I was witness to the installation of the (yes, single) Fortigate 300C firewall the school uses, however, it was not my own configuration/ins...
Friday, 15 September 2017

Linux Game Server Manager

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One of the teachers at school has declared that "eSports" will now be a Thing at school; his dream is that we thrash our arch-neme...
Thursday, 14 September 2017

Goodbye, eth0 - Hello enp4s0?!

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Today, I got a small shock whilst installing a few services on a new Ubuntu Server 16 LTS (16.04.3)  instance on an old HP Proliant server w...
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Wednesday, 26 July 2017

Goodbye, YouTube Video Editor...?

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It's rare that Google do something anti-awesome. Sometime late last year, I discovered YouTube has a basic (but well-featured) video e...
Friday, 30 June 2017

Distributed Monitoring Projects - RIPE ATLAS & FlightAware FlightFeeder

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I'm currently hosting nodes for two distributed monitoring networks - one for several years now (since perhaps 2010 or so), and the othe...
Thursday, 15 June 2017

DMARC Breaks Mailing Lists - in the wild!

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In a recent post, I mentioned that SPF and particularly DMARC can break mailing lists . For the first time ever, I've actually seen an...
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