@popester said in Quick question: because I think I messed up.:

The I and C were transposed........ Wow........

Typos drive me insane! Glad you found it before you suffered a catastrophe.

@jt1001001 said in Water always wins.:

@JasGot lots f issues around here as well. Lake Erie erosion worst I've seen and Lake Ontario flooding last 2 years

It's bad, have you suffered any loss personally? Or just local stuff? The public access parking area (about 1000 ft away) fell in about 4 weeks ago.....

@Obsolesce said in Need to better understand IP Helper for accessing Windows DHCP Server from VLAN.:

Did you break out Wireshark yet to check each network segment for where it's failing to relay to?

Do devices get an address on the same network as the dhcp server?

I haven't because it is only some iphones. Like, 4 out of 100 iphones don't get dhcp addresses. every other brand device works fine.

@Dashrender said in Water always wins.:

I don't know what you mean by lost beach?

Our Unsalted Ocean has been behaving like an actual ocean this year.

https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2019/11/lake-michigan-storm-expected-to-further-erode-dunes-days-after-home-demolished.html

@Dashrender said in Troubleshooting email flow issue:

Pretty sure I figured it out.

The domain in question had 2 MX records,

1. O365
2. gmail

O365 has the higher priority, and there have never been any complaints of missing messages.

I'm assuming this spam made it to google, because I know some spammers specifically use the secondary, etc MX records in hopes of bypassing spam filters. So I'm assuming that's what was happening here.

Now that said - I did see a single Twitter email in the G Suite - so I'm guessing there was glitch at O365 once, and Twitter hit it and tried the secondary...

Often, spammers will send mail to a higher MX record on purpose. There are many reason they do this, Less protected routes to a gullible user is one of them.

@travisdh1 said in Quick question: because I think I messed up.:

Could be the timeout setting is quite long. 2 weeks used to be a common setting, so it could take some time if you didn't change that setting beforehand.

Excellent point. For years we have been making it a point to set the timeout to 900 seconds as soon as we new there was going to be a change in the future. Not all name servers honor it, but is sure has had a positive impact to the overall propagation time.

@Dashrender said in Need to better understand IP Helper for accessing Windows DHCP Server from VLAN.:

interesting - if there are open ports on the sonicwall - you could just use one of them as the interface, and have the switch be an untagged port for that specific VLAN, then the sonicwall won't care, or know it's a VLAN.

I can do that. I am not certain it is the sonicwall failing to deliver the DHCP though. The sonicwall connection monitor never shows a connection from the device (iphone). At this point, any changes I make to the UniFi gear has an impact. Nothing has fixed it, but it has an impact.

Then I read about Unifi Switch issues and version 4.0.69 here but even when I go back to 4.0.66, my problems still remain. I think Ubiquiti is experience a major problem with DHCP and VLAN scenarios and they have not figured it out yet.

@dbeato said in Need to better understand IP Helper for accessing Windows DHCP Server from VLAN.:

Which we did.

Did it solve the issue?

@dbeato said in Need to better understand IP Helper for accessing Windows DHCP Server from VLAN.:

Another thing to note is that the Unifi Switches with a Unifi Server Controller give a lot of troubles with VLAN configuration (I am not talking about EdgeSwitches but the Unifi Swtiches).

When you get a few minutes, can you elaborate? This sounds like we are experiencing. DHCP issues?

I just updated the firmware on all of the switches and found one loop. I'm hopeful things are better tomorrow.

@scottalanmiller said in Water always wins.:

@JasGot said in Water always wins.:

Headed north tomorrow. Lost over 40,000sqft (about 8,000 cubic yards) of beach in yesterday's storm.

From where?

Was heading north from the Detroit area.

@scottalanmiller said in Why IT certifications are worth more than you think...:

Doing a startup of your own is incredibly rewarding and insanely hard.

...and wouldn't trade the experience for anything!

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@JasGot said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Their first step in the right direction is to push the VPN nomenclature without ever mentioning P2P file sharing.

It's just a VPN. P2P is a file transfer thing. This is a VPN thing. Not really related at all. This is like ZeroTier.

I understand file sharing is just a rider in the transit system, but can you imagine how software piracy will take off when everyone is wearing a cloaking cape? ie; Mesh-VPN

@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Nebula VPN routes between hosts privately, flexibly, and efficiently
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/12/nebula-vpn-routes-between-hosts-privately-flexibly-and-efficiently/

"Last month, the engineering department at Slack—an instant messaging platform commonly used for community and small business organization—released a new distributed VPN mesh tool called Nebula. Nebula is free and open source software, available under the MIT license.

It's difficult to coherently explain Nebula in a nutshell. According to the people on Slack's engineering team, they asked themselves "what is the easiest way to securely connect tens of thousands of computers, hosted at multiple cloud service providers in dozens of locations around the globe?" And (developing) Nebula was the best answer they had. It's a portable, scalable overlay networking tool that runs on most major platforms, including Linux, MacOS, and Windows, with some mobile device support planned for the near future."

It's like Napster, Limewire, Gnutella, Bit Torrent, etc with SSL. Only Nebula appears to actually be secure against side channel leaks.

Maybe Nebula (unlike all the other P2P before it) will actually take off and be used by many. Their first step in the right direction is to push the VPN nomenclature without ever mentioning P2P file sharing.

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 1809+ Clipboard history:

OK, I suppose I can follow that - but you really think that CopyX is somehow more secure than Clipboard history? Don't they both use the clipboard? that thing is pretty much open to anyone, so I don't see how it would be any more or less secure - I would say they are likely both the same level of secure....

Even though they both read the clipboard whenever it changes, ClipX doesn't store the history the same way Windows Clipboard History does. Since Microsoft is a larger target, I still think they will be compromised before ClipX.

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 1809+ Clipboard history:

@JasGot said in Windows 10 1809+ Clipboard history:

Although the Windows Clip history is probably more easily compromised

Why would you say that?

Because there are many more bad actors devising ways to hack Microsoft products. And when they do, it becomes easier for other bad actors to compromise Microsoft products.

I'm not saying MS is bad at development, just that they are the biggest target with the most resources developing ways to hack them.

@black3dynamite said in Windows 10 1809+ Clipboard history:

Does these commands work it?
get-clipboard and set-clipboard

Yes. But not images.

@Dashrender Just turned it on and am playing with it. I was curious how much data it would hold.

The history will persist past a system restart so you have to be proactive about keeping it clean. Sensitive information shouldn’t be stored there but to make sure that it’s still usable, you should trim the items on the clipboard regularly so that only important items are kept long term. There doesn’t seem to be any limit on how many items it can store but since this is a native Windows 10 feature, you can expect it to store a reasonably large number of items.

I have used ClipX daily and extensively for years. I am going to try Windows Clipboard history for a while. Although the Windows Clip history is probably more easily compromised

@scottalanmiller said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:

But will almost always run Ubuntu or Fedora (and definitely ChromeOS) way faster. Not just a little faster, like crazy faster.

How are you getting ChromeOS on an Intel box that had been running windows?

@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Greenshot is still better. I don't recall the other things that people around here use.

I don't think I would make it to lunch if I didn't have Greenshot at my finger tips!

This should induce a full blown home user panic

Microsoft announced that starting January 15, 2020, it will start displaying full-screen alerts. They will describe the risks of using Windows 7 Service Pack 1 after discontinuing support on January 14, 2020.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-7-to-show-full-screen-windows-10-upgrade-alerts/