Posts made by travisdh1

@Obsolesce said in Remove Windows 10 & Windows 11 "No Internet" Message:

Doesn't that prevent Windows from probing a Microsoft server to check if the network connection has internet access? I imagine that would only not work as designed on user devices if they are on some kind of highly secure network that blocks that connection.

That would be the logical behavior, but I see this reported as offline while actively using streaming services and such. It's just flat out broken, so disabling it makes sense for many end users.

@pattonb I know it's a pain, but I never use aliases, especially in crantab since crontab gets executed in a different shell environment.

If your command is to long without the alias, perhaps it would be better to put it in a shell script to use in cron instead of the command directly?

@scottalanmiller said in Meta Down: Facebook and Instagram Offline:

@travisdh1 said in Meta Down: Facebook and Instagram Offline:

@scottalanmiller said in Meta Down: Facebook and Instagram Offline:

@DustinB3403 said in Meta Down: Facebook and Instagram Offline:

@scottalanmiller They aren't down here in the states as far as I can tell.

Downdetector shows everything in the US down. I just heard that AT&T is under attack. It's the US backbone having issues, apparently.

This is the 2nd time in the past few weeks that AT&T has had major issues of some kind in the US. First the cellular service issues, and now their backbone.

Shows how dependent Facebook / Meta is on that one ISP.

Also shows how poorly Meta's infrastructure is setup. We do BGP all the time where I'm working right now, and once setup correctly it's plug as many WAN connections in as you want, the public IP always exits from the same core router. No large company like that should have issues from a single ISP that develops a network problem!

@scottalanmiller said in Meta Down: Facebook and Instagram Offline:

@DustinB3403 said in Meta Down: Facebook and Instagram Offline:

@scottalanmiller They aren't down here in the states as far as I can tell.

Downdetector shows everything in the US down. I just heard that AT&T is under attack. It's the US backbone having issues, apparently.

This is the 2nd time in the past few weeks that AT&T has had major issues of some kind in the US. First the cellular service issues, and now their backbone.

@gjacobse said in Proxmox: UPS:

In all the Proxmox discussions, I can't say that I have heard or seen anything regarding the use of the UPS,.. Tripplite or APC or other.

I have only done a little searching regarding this and having seen much as of yet, but sometimes it's about the keyword order of the search.

Is there any pointed documentation on how to establish UPS support / power down on a Proxmox node. While mine isn't 'production' grade or priority, it would be nice to know that my node will power down properly over just shutting down with the battery is depleted.

I have an APC for my home lab server that's running Proxmox currently. This is the 1 thing I've found that XCP-NG does better than Proxmox, a UPS "just works".

For my Proxmox server, I have the UPS assigned to a VM. However, I haven't found a solution to shutdown the server from the VM that I like yet. All the online documentation I've seen says to use apcupsd or nut, and I'd rather not have to have anything non-standard running on it.

That's my long, whiny way of saying I just need to write a 1 liner script to do it. Come on man, it's not that hard!

@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Wyze

The next company to add to your blacklist due to poor security incident handling and response.

Wyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other people’s homes

I used to have a couple of their Wyze Pan cameras, but I've switched to cameras I'm able to run locally only. I've lost trust in most large companies keeping things properly secured.

It's now 2/15/2024 with Fedora 39, and this is still working.

Just setup a new reverse proxy.

@DustinB3403 If you can access the shell, you should be able to find those in the log files. Been to long since I had to do that myself, I don't remember which logfile to check off the top of my head.

@DustinB3403 said in Define Air Gapped Networks:

When using terminology like "Air Gapped" what is your first impression of it?

When I see someone say they have an air gapped network, I think it to mean that the network is separate from the rest of the organization (through a physical disconnect), and that Air Gapped, does not imply the lack of internet.

Air Gapped != Without Internet

What's your opinion?

That's a common assumption for sure. I agree that just because a network is "Air Gapped" doesn't mean lack of internet.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@GUIn00b said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Contemplating how to leverage 2 ISP's for supplemental bandwidth when needed using 2 separate routers that are both servicing the same LAN.

......So I'm gonna go post a new topic!

Get a DUAL Wan capable firewall, set it up either as Active/Active or Active/Backup.

You'll be banging your head sorting out getting a fault tolerant static IP address, though it can be done.

BGP..... that could be a whole series of topics itself.

Yup... and getting two different ISP's to play together is the fun part...

Getting 2 ISPs to play together is the easiest part, they don't even need to know. With BGP, it's finding someone to route the public connection. At work, we own routers we do the public routing end of the BGP if you purchase an internet connection through us. It works really well, plug as many of any type of internet connection into our SD-WAN box and the BGP routing makes the next hop our head-end routers.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@GUIn00b said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Contemplating how to leverage 2 ISP's for supplemental bandwidth when needed using 2 separate routers that are both servicing the same LAN.

......So I'm gonna go post a new topic!

Get a DUAL Wan capable firewall, set it up either as Active/Active or Active/Backup.

You'll be banging your head sorting out getting a fault tolerant static IP address, though it can be done.

BGP..... that could be a whole series of topics itself.

@GUIn00b Where to start? I setup and support this sort of thing professionally now. I also had this same headache at home until recently (fiber is so much better, so sorry it's so tantalizingly close.)

I'd highly recommend using a single router with dual WAN setup. I'm not sure about the particulars with that on OpenWRT, but there are some things to consider.

Do you know what the throughput rating is for your OpenWRT routers for QoS? Just about any router/computer will be able to forward packets at gigabit speed, but if they don't have an ASIC accelerator for QoS they can cause speed to tank when turning on QoS.

For example, my personal ER-POE will only forward ~140mbps with QoS turned on while the VMWare Edge or FortiGate devices we use for work start at ~300mbps, and our Juniper's will do full gigabit.

Setting up the firewall and/or NAT for your public IP addresses shouldn't change much if at all.

You can do true internet connection HA, but that tends to be so human-error prone that it ends up being less reliable than using a single router.

@JasGot said in Options to securely deliver electronic documents?:

We have a customer that is asking about delivering documents to their customers; securely.

Much like a bank would do it. They send you an email with instructions to visit their site, login, and download your file.

Anyone aware of a service that does this?

I'd first review one of our previous discussions here. https://mangolassi.it/topic/9231/o365-and-encrypted-mail-to-other-email-systems

I don't trust those systems at all. I've personally been given other people's house and car titles through those. Yes, someone messed up in sending them to me, but those BBS systems exist to make people feel better, not to improve security.

@NetworkNerd

Obviously look for stored procedures in the database.

SHOW PROCEDURE STATUS;

You also might want to check for a php-cron somewhere in WordPress itself. It's been long enough since I've touched WordPress that I forget where to look for that.

@gjacobse said in TMUX: hype or function:

Scanning through my recent feed, I found mention of using TMUX in Linux. Has anyone been using this, is there benefit to using it?

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tmux is a terminal multiplexer for Unix-based operating systems. Simply put, it acts as an add-on to an existing terminal.

Off the top of my head, tmux is like screen. It's a way to manage multiple terminal sessions.

I used to use them often, but today I ask myself why I feel it's necessary? What's failed that I need multiple terminal sessions at one time. Every time it's either "this should be a VM" or "this should be a container".

I'll add another note for future reference here.

For Fedora 39 Server, apcupsd has another package apcupsd-cgi that can be used with a web server to display UPS status. However, you have to move the files it installs by default because they're not in the /var/www/cgi-bin directory.

sudo dnf install -y apcupsd apcupsd-cgi httpd
sudo mv /var/www/apcupsd /var/www/cgi-bin/
sudo chown apache:apache /var/www/cgi-bin/apcupsd/*
sudo systemctl enable --now httpd

Should get it up and running.
I found 3 useful tools with it.
http://YOURIP/cgi-bin/apcupsd/uspstats.cgi
http://YOURIP/cgi-bin/apcupsd/multimon.cgi
http://YOURIP/cgi-bin/apcupsd/upsfstats.cgi

2023, and this thread is still the best resource for getting nut/apcupsd running.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Installer for my fiber internet is here, hooray!

Whole new experience today. Goodbye DSL and cable!

Thanks
Another thing for me to run in Powershell.

Yep choco install speedtest. So much faster than loading an add laden website.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Installer for my fiber internet is here, hooray!

Whole new experience today. Goodbye DSL and cable!