networking

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 A mixture of overly-complex, out of date, incredibly niche, and just straight up poorly-written.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....

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....

You’d be surprised how many people don’t know this and how rarely that matters (OK, probably not that surprised). This is the process Windows uses to resolve names to IP addresses, it can be useful when troubleshooting name resolution issues or in the few edge cases where you need the same hostname to resolve to different addresses depending on where you are: Windows checks whether the host name is the same as the local host name....