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PuTTY gethostbyname: unknown error

By On February 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Work

I had an issue using PuTTY (free Windows SSH client) this afternoon when trying to login to a work server. The error message seemed very odd:

Unable to open connection to andrewbevitt.com
gethostbyname: unknown error

OR BY IP ADDRESS

Unable to open connection to 220.233.157.156
Network error: Invalid argument

Turns out that it’s [...]

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Tutorial: DD-WRT RADIUS Authentication w/ Server 2008 R2

By On December 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Work

I’ve just put up a new tutorial (strangely enough about the title)! You can read it here.

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WDS Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2

By On November 5, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Work

I’ve been playing with Windows Deployment Services for rolling out Windows 7 Professional (from Server 2008 R2) over the last couple of days. Aside from a missing NIC driver everything seems to be fairly straight forward.

Plenty of documentation already exists on this subject, but I spent the good part of a day wading through [...]

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pfsense 1.2 openvpn w/ tls-auth

By On June 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Work

I really like pfsense it makes a really good firewall, router, vpn connector – alone or together. The web interface is intuitive and the first-run wizard “just works”. I am using it to run an OpenVPN VPN.

OpenVPN comes with a feature called “TLS Auth”: which basically uses TLS to encrypt the SSL [...]

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Zimbra SSL Certificate

By On February 12, 2009 · 2 Comments · In Work

If you’re running Zimbra, or planning to, then chances are you will want to use SSL to secure your client connections. The Zimbra wiki has quite a few articles on doing this but they all seem a little over written if all you need to do is create a CSR and sign it (with [...]

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