Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/06
In case you manually want to configure or have a web-server that’s not supported by certbot for letsencrypt (yet): Generate Mozilla Security Recommended Web Server Configuration Files.
At the time of writing, these were supported by the generator (* were not supported by certbot for letsencrypt yet):
–jeroen
via: Feature request: admin web interface over HTTPS · Issue #630 · pi-hole/pi-hole
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/06
I needed the current IP-addresses of the gmail MX server (don’t ask the details; but it has to do with the brain-dead TP-LINK ER5120 configuration possibilities).
This is the command I finally used:
dig @8.8.8.8 +short MX gmail.com | sed "s/^[0-9]* //g" | sed "s/.$//" | xargs -I {} dig @8.8.8.8 +short {} | uniq | sort
Basically it’s a three stage sequence which had to work on OS X as well as Linux using a bash shell:
The basics of the above are about using dig to get short (or terse) answers with as little (but still to the point) information as possible.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/06
DNS traffic within corporate networks should also be considered a channel that an attacker can use to implement a fully functional, bidirectional C2 infrastructure.
Source: [WayBack] Cisco’s Talos Intelligence Group Blog: Covert Channels and Poor Decisions: The Tale of DNSMessenger
–jeroen
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