The Hierarchical Token Bucket Quality of Service (HTB QoS) system is a great tool to use for controlling the bandwidth of a network link, especially when you have a bunch of doggs on your network that love to use up all the internets they can get! Lets take a look at a quick and simple […]
Blocking Services with Fail2Ban
There are many different methods of securing a publicly accessible server, and one of the best things a system administrator can do is use fail2ban to dynamically block potential attackers before they can do any damage.
Setting up an IPv6 Tunnel
So, you want to access IPv6 websites, but your ISP does not provide native IPv6 access? Well, here are some instructions for setting up a 6in4 IPv6 tunnel with Hurricane Electric!
Creating a Google Pie Chart using SQL da...
Recently I was asked to create a webpage to summarize some data from a MySQL database for analysis. Creating webpages and running SQL queries isn’t something that I do on a regular basis; I mostly administrate the servers that these services run on. But I figured, why not?! I’m familiar with all of this stuff. […]
Installing PS3 Media Server on CentOS 6
So after recently rebuilding one of the servers in my dogghouse, I realized that I hadn’t installed a uPNP/DLNA AV media server. Previously I had been using Fuppes, but the lack of active development and some other quirks made me re-think what I wanted to use. So, after comparing available packages, I decided to give […]
Radvd and DHCPd6 Server Configuration fo...
I’ve been using radvd for a while now to hand out IPv6 addresses to all the different devices in my Dogghouse, and I thought that it would be nice to have a working dynamic DNS setup for IPv6, in the same way as I have DDNS for IPv4.