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All the articles I've posted.

Can't ping using FQDN
I've run across this a few times now. It seems every time I do a big Linux upgrade I lose the ability to connect to an internal server using its FQDN. I ca

Fail2ban - Quick Reference
List your jails: $ sudo fail2ban-client status Show a particular jails status: $ sudo fail2ban-client status [JAILNAME] Unban an IP Address from the jail:

SSH - no matching key exchange method
Updated:Trying to logon to some older network switch management interfaces I came across a failure due to them using older SHA1 key exchanges and key types. Thankf

Debian 9, SAMBA broke my Shares
Updated:I updated my workstation to Debian 9 (stretch) today and immediately after could no longer connect to any of my Windows fileshares. Guessing this was proba

VMware Horizon Client on Debian Stretch
Updated:In order to install the client on Debian 9 (stretch) I've had to get libpng12-0 installed from Jessie here: https://packages.debian.org/en/jessie/amd64/lib

Juniper HA Woes
I spent quite some time messing around with a pair of Juniper SRX320's trying to get the HA clustering setup. The documentation seems pretty straight forwa

apt-get - Hash Sum mismatch
I tried to run some updates on my workstation today and it failed with a Hash Sum mismatch. $ sudo apt-get update W: Failed to fetch http://www.deb-multime

Unable to Logon as admin
Updated:I managed to bork one of our test switches today. I was in the process of enabling "netlogin" using RADIUS as the authentication method, when I must have i

Bye, bye, Percona
For quite a few years we'd been running Percona on our Nagios server with no issues. So no reason to change, until sometime over the past few days the repo

Owncloud Upgrade and Maintenance Mode
$ cd /var/www/html/owncloud $ sudo -u www-data php occ upgrade $ sudo -u www-data php occ maintenance:mode --off