A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
It is a good idea to place a log chain just above your drop or reject rule and usually you would do a -A INPUT -j LOG The above rule can cause flooding your system. You should instead use the following iptables rule to avoid your logs being flooded and DDOS’ing -A INPUT -m limit […]
It can sometimes be difficult to determine which networcard is eth0, eth1 and so on. A easy way to determine it is to use the ethtool command ethtool -p eth0 10 This makes the network cards LED blink for 10 seconds, and this happens without interrupting the network traffic. You do offcourse need physical access […]
If you are using squid like me, it is sometimes useful to avoid cacheing some internet addresses. To accomplish this you could edit your /etc/squid/squid.conf file and add the following line acl NOCACHEDOMAIN dstdomain www.vg.no no_cache deny NOCACHEDOMAIN This makes it possible to view www.vg.no without viewing a squid cached page.
The last time I installed Debian Etch i closed both port 111 and 113 but since I’ve forgot it already and a new installation is in progress, this post should remind me how to do it in the future. The code view below shows the ports nmap found were in a open state PORT STATE […]
To list the contents of a package just run the command # rpm -ql packagename Example # rpm -ql nmap /usr/bin/nmap /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70 /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70/COPYING /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70/COPYING.OpenSSL /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70/README /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70/nmap-fingerprinting-article.txt /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70/nmap.deprecated.txt /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70/nmap.usage.txt /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70/nmap_doc.html /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70/nmap_manpage.html /usr/share/man/man1/nmap.1.gz /usr/share/nmap /usr/share/nmap/nmap-mac-prefixes /usr/share/nmap/nmap-os-fingerprints /usr/share/nmap/nmap-protocols /usr/share/nmap/nmap-rpc /usr/share/nmap/nmap-service-probes /usr/share/nmap/nmap-services