Hetzner offer very well specified physical servers at extremely low prices. I’ve used them for many years and they’ve proved
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Author: Phil Lavin
I’m an Engineer, working for Vonage (an Ericsson company). I write about stuff that interests me - primarily Networks, Software Engineering, VoIP and Electronics. It exists in the hope that someone may learn from my thoughts and ramblings.
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Postfix: Blocking senders by reverse DNS hostname
Postfix has an option for smtpd_recipient_restrictions called check_client_access. According to the Postfix manual, this: You can use it to block specific domains, as
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Fixed: Outlook 2016 not synchronizing Inbox from IMAP after upgrade from 2013
After upgrading from Outlook 2013 to 2016, I found that new e-mails were not being downloaded from IMAP into the
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Fixed: Plex with Sonos – Unable to play – Unable to connect to Plex
This problem bugged me for a long time. I could list the contents of the Plex library in the Sonos
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Juniper SRX – Upgrading JunOS from USB
There’s a few ways to do this. Here’s the easiest: First, format your USB drive as fat32. Download the compressed
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Juniper SRX PPPoE Configuration for Plusnet ADSL
This was a bit of a faff, so I thought I’d document it. The setup here is an ADSL modem
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An overview of JunOS Quality of Service (QoS / CoS) configuration
JunOS QoS configuration is flexible, albeit a little tricky to understand. It has a few key components which I shall
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VLAN manipulation/translation on Juniper MX series routers
The MX series routers are truly excellent. As well as being used for routing, they can also be used for
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Chassis clustering a Juniper SRX firewall via a switch
Intro It is recommended that clustered SRX devices are directly connected. To do this, you need to run 2 cables,
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[SOLVED] pfSense – pfsync_undefer_state: unable to find deferred state
This pfSense bug has been present since 2.2 and is still present at the time of writing this. It occurs
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