Random posts about networking, storage, guns, reggae, probably booze and whatever else I feel like posting about.
Do you ever run into this issue? You need to reconfigure networking and do a network restart and this happens: That duplicate ip address check takes a LONG time. On Continue Reading…
Here’s the scenario; a website gets slow, or server gets slow, or you simply notice a ton of random connections to a site that normally is not that busy. You Continue Reading…
Here’s the scenario; you’re using Plesk, you have it configured with Postfix, you have the mail server settings configured to query Spamcop, Spamhaus or whatever RBL you chose. Inevitably, “high Continue Reading…
So just learned something I don’t like about Postfix; it’s the fact that its default configuration is to accept email for local system accounts, even if virtual domains and aliases Continue Reading…
I recently came across a server where email sent (i.e. RCPT TO) from remote to ‘root@domain’ for any valid domain on the server would be accepted by postfix and forwarded Continue Reading…
Moving a website from unix to Windows? Well I guess apache runs on Windows too but whatever. Here’s the command you’ll need to build a PKCS12 format SSL certificate file Continue Reading…
Not sure why, but spam bots love to make pointless POST requests against random pages on your websites, probably trying to find vulnerable php apps, SQL injections, etc. If you Continue Reading…
Typically you’ll see your site being blown up with requests to wp-login.php. If you don’t have remote editors adding content, you can just block the requests from all but your Continue Reading…
Keep in mind this no longer works if you’re running Plesk 11 and have enabled the enhanced security mode which encrypts the passwords stored in the database.
I have not done extensive research on this error yet, but on Plesk servers running Postfix you may see this in your /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog file from legit clients: Aug 14 11:36:58 Continue Reading…