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Introduction The Spamhaus Don’t Route Or Peer (DROP) Lists consist of netblocks that are leased or stolen by professional spam or cyber-crime operations, and used for dissemination of malware, trojan downloaders, botnet controllers, or other kinds of malicious activity. i.e. stuff you really don’t want to interact with. I used to consume the DROP list many years ago when my home firewall was Microsoft ISA/TMG (yes, really), but then completely forgot it existed until fairly recently....

Intro I’ve not really used qemu much before but I found myself needing it last week for a particular project and discovered - to my shock and amazement - that the documentation (official and 3rd party) surrounding it is almost universally terrible. A mixture of overly-complex, out of date, incredibly niche, and just straight up poorly-written. I’ll be honest, I wasn’t after much, I had a single qemu VM and I wanted it to be routable on my LAN....

As you may be aware, I’m part of linuxserver.io where I maintain a number of Docker containers such as grav and syslog-ng but there are times when I need a container that isn’t a suitable linuxserver candidate for any number of reasons so I just publish it myself. It occurred to me that I should probably make an effort to promote them given how difficult docker discovery is on places like Docker Hub where there are hundreds of containers for any given thing, almost all of which had one image push 3 years ago and haven’t been touched since....

Introduction If you live in the Windows world you probably haven’t had much cause to use NFS because SMB is the done thing, but if you’re working with Linux hosts or NAS devices NFS can be simpler to deal with. The problem is that Windows NFS support is a bit…wonky and it doesn’t help that almost all the guides on t’internet are giving out bad advice. So to continue my series of “I just figured this out so it seems only fair to share” posts, here’s how to setup the NFS client on Windows properly....