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The death of ESXi finally confirmed by Broadcom

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/12

Quite a few people already bumped into this the last two days (will add those links later), so today’s confirmation by Broadcom – who have a similar modus operandi as companies like Computer Associates and Symantec were and Idera is now – as of the ESXi death does not come as a surprise.

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Posted in Internet, InternetArchive, Power User, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi, WayBack machine | Leave a Comment »

Julia Evans (b0rk on Twitter) does not just make cool zines (like the DNS one) but also cool sites (the DNS lookup one). It’ is better than Google Toolbox, IntoDNS and others

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/31

A while after writing notes on updating DNS info with bind DNS, b0rk (Julia Evans) posted about her DNS zine which got a reply about her DNS lookup tool. Below is part of that thread.

The reason I post is that – unlike the Google DNS ToolBox – you can bookmark her DNS tool link including the actual search part, which makes it far easier to do systems administration.

Examples:

There is a trace tool too:

The thread:

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Posted in Development, DNS, Go (golang), Internet, Power User, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Note the Ziggo Wifispots certificate will often not install on Android the default way

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/26

A long time ago, I wrote about Wifispots instellen | Klantenservice | Ziggo « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.

For that, you need a Ziggo VPN certificate, which you can download from [Wayback] www.ziggo.nl/content/dam/www.ziggo.nl/tools/WifiSpots certificaten/WifiSpots certificaat Android en Windows Ziggo.crt .

On many Android phones, that does not install the default way any more as back then.

The reason is that it is a CA root certificate (in this case identifying Ziggo as certificate authority) thereby allowing them to issue any certificate. This can be a serious risk, so you have to be really sure to trust them before installing the certificate.

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Posted in Android Devices, Internet, ISP, Power User, Ziggo/UPC/A2000 | Leave a Comment »

Fritz!Box: domeinen in de whitelist om TV-West op de PC te kunnen zien

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/05

Deze moet je in een Fritz!Box zetten om TV-West op een PC te kunnen:

cloudfront.net
omroepwest.bbvms.com
i.regiogroei.cloud
static.regiogroei.cloud
cdn.primed.io
omroepwest.nl

Via [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Zet deze domain in je @AVM_NL #FritzBox op de whitelist om TV West van @omroepwest op je PC te kunnen bekijken: cloudfront.net
omroepwest.bbvms.com i.regiogroei.cloud static.regiogroei.cloud cdn.primed.io omroepwest.nl” / Twitter

–jeroen

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Posted in Firewall, Fritz!, Fritz!Box, Hardware, Infrastructure, Internet, Network-and-equipment, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Guess the maximum DNS Response Size… (by Jan Schaumann)

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/26

Every once in a while Jan Schaumann writes a long Twitter thread and saves it in a blog post. Always good ways to learn. This time it was no different: [Wayback/Archive] DNS Response Size started with

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Posted in Communications Development, Development, DNS, Internet, Internet protocol suite, IPv4, IPv6, Power User, TCP, tcpdump, UDP, Wireshark | Leave a Comment »

b0rk does fun things with DNS: CNAME records at the root of the domain; technically not allowed, definitely not recommended, but somehow work for web browsing

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/21

[Wayback/Archive] 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “I’ve always heard that you can’t create CNAME records at the root of the domain. But apparently you can? It seems to work fine as far as I can tell but I’m curious about the possible consequences. (yes, I registered cnameroot.com just to make this tweet) “

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Posted in Cloud, Cloudflare, DNS, Infrastructure, Internet, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Forgot where I found it, but for posterity: bitnet-links-Bitnet-Network-Definition-verison-89.xlsx

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/15

I forgot where I originally downloaded bitnet-links-Bitnet-Network-Definition-verison-89.xlsx from, but for posterity, here it is:

[Wayback] bitnet-links-Bitnet-Network-Definition-verison-89.xlsx

Related blog posts:

–jeroen

Posted in BITNET Relay, Chat, History, Internet, InternetArchive, Power User, SocialMedia | Leave a Comment »

The Wayback Machine Chrome extension got a big update. Every journalist & researcher should install it ASAP! Faster URL archiving w/ customization, access to yr personal archive, and it tells you if the page you’re on has already been archived, etc.

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/05

Last year I learned about [Wayback/Archive] Wayback Machine – Chrome Web Store via a Twitter thread starting at

[Wayback/Archive] Craig Silverman on Twitter: “The Wayback Machine Chrome extension got a big update. Every journalist & researcher should install it ASAP! Faster URL archiving w/ customization, access to yr personal archive, and it tells you if the page you’re on has already been archived, etc. #osint”

I saved the full thread at [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @CraigSilverman on Thread Reader App:

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Posted in Bookmarklet, Chrome, Internet, InternetArchive, LifeHacker, OSINT - Open Source Intelligence, Power User, Uncategorized, WayBack machine, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »

notes on updating DNS info with bind DNS

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/01

Steps:

  1. Edit the DNS zone file in /var/lib/named/master
  2. Make sure you updated the SOA serial number
  3. rcnamed restart
  4. Watch /var/lib/named/log/general for errors (you can even increase logging, for instance by reading [Wayback/Archive] this serverfault entry and editing /etc/named.d/logging) and – on my system – these other logs for the actual zone transfers:
    • /var/lib/named/log/in-xfer.log for incoming zone transfers on the secondary server
    • /var/lib/named/log/notify.log for notifications of zone transfers on the primary and secondary servers
    • /var/lib/named/log/out-xfer.log for outgoing zone transfers on the primary server
  5. Check on [Wayback/Archive] mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=dns:example.org&run=toolpage# to see if the SOA serials have been replicated (one day I will write a bookmarklet for this)

Alternatives for the last step are sites like these:

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Posted in DNS, Internet, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Avoid VirtualBox; use Hyper-V or VMware in stead

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/10

A while ago, Jilles found out why not to use VirtualBox: [Wayback/Archive] Jilles🏳️‍🌈 on Twitter: “@jpluimers Ik wil op basis van wat de Arch community schreeuwt; “Virtualbox is stom, als je geen hyper-v gebruikt vraag je om problemen”, HYPER-V maar gaan proberen.” / Twitter

The biggest problem is that VirtualBox seems to be developed ant tested for the happy path, not the failing path.

Which means that when you use it for less common scenarios, it will often fail in mysterious ways.

Back in Running ArchiveTeam Warrior version 3.2 on ESXi, I already mentioned this:

Totally agreeing with Kristian Kohntopp, I do not understand why people use VirtualBox at all: I just run in too much issues like [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “Hint: Wenn die Installation einer Linux-Distro in Virtualbox mit wechselnden, unbekannten Fehlern scheitert, hilft es, stattdessen einmal VMware Workstation oder kvm zu probieren. In meinem Fall hat es dann *jedes* *einzelne* *Mal* mit *demselben* Iso geklappt.”.

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, ArchiveTeamWarrior, Hyper-V, InternetArchive, Linux, Power User, VirtualBox, Virtualization, VMware, WayBack machine, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11 | 1 Comment »