Today, I decided to update some of my boxes, one of my boxes is a VM-ware server host running on top of Gentoo. That host has two clients, another Gentoo server and a 2003 Windows server. Both of the Gentoo servers needed to go to 2.6.21-r4 kernels, so I thought this would be a good… Continue reading Oh vmware, why do you have to be so difficult!
Quick check on MX using nslookup. I’m basically doing this for a reference for myself. I had some weirdness with MX in my zone. I noticed the following message in the logs: Jul 15 19:32:40 comp.com postfix/smtp[8501]: 4DF9F6540BA: host mx1.xxx.com.xx[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] said: 450 4.7.1 <user@xxx.com.xx>… recipient denied, because MX 10 'mail.mydomain.com.' [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] for <admin@mydomain.com> not answering… Continue reading Quick check on MX using nslookup
Today I came across an interesting challenge. My primary web development and dirvish backup server has been eating up drive space. In turn the server has been acting sluggish, and I’m always trying to shuffle files to increase room, etc. I ended up bying a new Western Digital SATA harddrive to help me out. I… Continue reading Newly installed drive changes ctime, what to do about rsync
Last year I was working on a Gentoo Linux based VMWare server install where I had two VMWare images running. One image was a hardened Gentoo web server and the other was a Windows 2003 server for running ASP/ASP.NET applications for development testing. One of the requirements was to install a FTP server where multiple… Continue reading Searching for Windows FTP server
Okay.. I started to stop playing Desktop Tower Defense, and thank God! Now, back to ‘real’ stuff. I’m been running into some weird stuff with the latest mod_security, and thanks to the great community at the ModSec mailing list, we’re starting to take care of the problems.
Okay, I’m addicted to a new game. A couple of friends turned me on to this, and I literally can’t stop playing/thinking about this game. It’s called Desktop Tower Defense. It’s the most brilliant stupid game I’ve ever played. You need to create a maze with weapon towers to keep the creeps from going to… Continue reading Desktop Tower Defense!!!!
From the recent upgrade of Snort 2.4 to 2.6, we started encountering some weird issues with MySQL 5. What tends to happen if MySQL is restarted or there is a large gap between alerts, snort will complain that MySQL has gone away. I’m not sure where to point the problem, is this a MySQL problem… Continue reading Snort: mysql_error: MySQL server has gone away
Hello All Well, I was able to get mod_security upgraded from 1.x to 2.x on all servers. There were issues along the way, mainly the problem with mod_limitipconn and mod_security-2.x not playing nice with each other (please review posts below on the matter since it may not be isolated to mod_limitipconn, and resulted in full… Continue reading Mod_security :: upgrading from 1.x to 2.x (part 2)
Ok, usually this site I write about some pretty nerdy stuff about Gentoo Linux. Mainly ‘issues’ and how I resolved them. But with today’s sponsored post I get to write about a site that is nerdy AND funny. When I say “funny”, I mean funny cool, not funny odd. The site is Desk Shot (http://www.deskshot.com).… Continue reading Desk Shot
Hello all The mod_security team quickly isolated my problem and generated a patch for me to address it. To give a summary of the issue, when updating to mod_security-2.1.1 AND using mod_limitipconn-0.22-r1, mod_security blocks are bypassed. Mod_security logs the rule trigger and states that it issued a 403 (or whatever status you set 500, etc),… Continue reading Mod_security-2.1.1 and mod_limitipconn patch procedure