Yesterday, one of our production server was experiencing some performance issue, when I investigated, I found out that it was under a brute force attack from a certain IP (infect many IPs) all trying to break-in using the SSH port 22. We needed SSH (port 22) to be open for many reasons so shutting it down to avoid the attack was not an option.Read More »
Category: Linux Networking
Master Configurator
Master-Configurator is configuration manager that sets applications configuration according to your local system. Configurations are written in modules available under the “modules” folder. I created master-configurater so that we dont have to repeat configuring our systems. At the moment, I havent added anything much, but we can write modules that sets the configuration to get best performance dependent on our system specification. All the magic will be in the modules.
Link to Project: https://github.com/afridiwaqar/master-configurator
Working with SSH
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I will be working on Ubuntu 12.04 to setup ssh server but you can apply the same principle to all of Linux versions. so lets get going…Read More »
Configuring DHCP on Linux
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Today we are going to Configure both DHCP Server and DHCP Client. DHCP Server is used to provide Dynamic IP Addresses to Client PCs requesting the Service, DHCP provides it from a Pool of IP Addresses defined on the Server machine. so Lets get StartedRead More »
Configuring File Transfer Protocol
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Today we are going to configure an FTP server (vsftpd to be more precise) on Linux (Fedora), FTP Server is used to transfer file/folders and other stuff (if you know what I mean :p) from one host to another. Read More »
Configuring Samba Server
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Before I begin with tutorial, I would Like to mention that this is the second time I am writing this tutorial, I wrote it like 90% and then the X hanged and i had to reboot, when I opened the browser, everything was gone 😦
OK so lets start with the tutorialRead More »
Configuring NFS on Linux
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I am back with another tutorial on a completely new Topic, that is “Networking”, but Linux is still the same. I will start with basic and teach you How to configure Network File System on Linux system.