My Mac Mini with OSX Server had this thing that the hostname (as displayed in the Terminal app) would change after a reboot. Something that annoyed me tremendously. Thankfully there are several (Terminal) commands to change the hostname (back) to its 'original name'.
Since I wanted to change my hostname PERMANENTLY, I used the following command:
sudo scutil –set HostName new_hostname
This worked perfectly. Or so I thought.
A fairy long title, but it describes exactly what this post is about. Once again a post about a Microsoft product and the way it works (or rather doesn't work) with your average Internet standard.
This week I was busy with RADIUS, 802.1x, PKI and the protection of websites with SSL encryption. For the implementation of 802.1x, I needed a PKI environment, so I used the Microsoft Certificate Services for that purpose. Along the way, I needed an SSL certificate for an internal website, but this particular website needed to work properly based on different FQDN's and or IP addresses without throwing warining or errors regarding the SSL connection.
The way to do this is to add Subject Alternative Names (SAN) to the certificate. This enables you to access the website in different ways, e.g.;
- Access a webmail host from the internet based on its official FQDN (https://webmail.somedomain.com)
- Access the same webmail host from the inside of the corporate lan based on its internal name (https://webmail.acme.local)
- And access the host from legacy DNS-unaware software on its IP address (https://192.168.1.254)
No idea if this is a new feature introduced with a newer version of Dropbox, but it is possible to download nzb and torrent files through the Mobile Safari app.
What you need is the following (for a complete downloading system):
- A Dropbox account (the 2GB version is free!!!!)
- A torrent application with the possibility of using a so-called watch-folder (e.g. Vuze)
- An usenet application with a watch-folder capability (e.g. SabNZBd+)
- An iPhone with the Dropbox app.
First you need to setup Dropbox. This is the easiest part. Just create two folders called 'NZB' and 'Torrent'. These folders will contain the downloaded torrent and nzb files.
After that you need to configure the Vuze and/or NZB download application to use a watch-folder.
I use these apps on my Mac Mini server. So it's operational 24/7.
The Fritzbox 7340 is the only real available VDSL modem/router in the Netherlands. Too bad, since it has some bugs (but what piece of software hasn't???). Fortunately, the router works well, just as long as you use it as the only networking device in your (small) network.
In the last couple of days I've been busy to add the Juniper SRX100 branch firewall to my local home network. The idea was the following:
- The Fritzbox (FB) will remain the Internet router
- My web/mail/ssh server is placed behind the SRX100
- All the individual portforward rules in the Fritzbox are directed to the SRX100 by selecting the 'Exposed Host' in the FB.
There's a new service around called Backupify. It's an online backup system for your online identities/services (free usage till January 31, 2010). It provides automated online backup for the following online services:
- Gmail
- Twitter
- Google Docs
- Flickr
- Facebook
- Basecamp
- Wordpress
- Delicious
- Photobucket
- Blogger
- FriendFeed
- More coming soon...
On itself a nice service, since cloud services aren't invulnerable to customer data lose. This way you have a online backup in case Flickr or Twitter 'decides' to purge your data.
There are some 'drawbacks' though (in my opinion).....
For many, the world is was in disarray. It seems that the Twitters have been hacked (read: defaced) by the infamous (never heard of them though) Iranian Cyber Army.
Twitter rerouted to an Iranian Cyber Army page.
;)