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…
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Tutorial: DD-WRT RADIUS Authentication w/ Server 2008 R2
I’ve just put up a new tutorial (strangely enough about the title)! You can read it here.
WDS Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2
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…
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pfsense 1.2 openvpn w/ tls-auth
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…
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Zimbra SSL Certificate
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…
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