Category: Networking

For those who are stuck with running cron jobs with Ruby scripts. The non-interactive shell “bash -lc” might not work. The sure shot way is to just export your path in the job itself. You might be getting errors like...

Sometimes Docker’s networking acts funky. I had the following error while using docker-compose with a ruby:2.7.1-alpine3.11 image. RUN apk add –update –no-cache curl fetch...

Sometimes we run blogs that are updated frequently and at predetermined intervals. It’s useful to warm up the cache after content has changed. I’ve used plugins but they don’t seem to work well. I’ve...

Just spent the day digging through a box of old gear to relegate for network extension duties. These tests were done in bridge mode from about 20 ft from the main router through 2 walls.

Introduction There was a time when you could determine the size of a file by counting the number of characters it had. One character equates to one byte. Simple. In fact, it was how I found the office perpetrator who printed out...

After years of having to manually renew certificates (I’ve used StartSSL in the past), Let’s Encrypt is finally live and will allow you to automate this process by installing an agent and a cron job. Here I’m...

Generally there are three ways of reverting changes: checkout revert reset Checkout If you just need to revert specific files, you could run git checkout to retrieve an exact version. In the below example, I wanted to revert the...

If you haven’t done so, install Vagrant for your OS here. vagrant plugin install vagrant-digitalocean mkdir vagrant_project cd vagrant_project vagrant init Generate your key pairs. If using Windows, use puttygen. In...

OpenVPN Access Server’s free license provides two user accounts free of charge. sudo wget http://swupdate.openvpn.org/as/openvpn-as-2.0.12-Ubuntu14.amd_64.deb sudo dpkg -i openvpn-as-2.0.12-Ubuntu14.amd_64.deb sudo passwd...