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PuTTY gethostbyname: unknown error
Feb 4th
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 a Windows
Tutorial: DD-WRT RADIUS Authentication w/ Server 2008 R2
Dec 7th
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
Nov 5th
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
pfsense 1.2 openvpn w/ tls-auth
Jun 18th
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 handshake between
Zimbra SSL Certificate
Feb 12th
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 your