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Bogons: Do not let them in or through your networks

CTOvision

Many ISPs and end-user firewalls seek to block bogons, because they have no legitimate use (more details on how successful they can be at this are below). Historically, when ISPs or enterprises say they filter bogons, they are likely only referring to private IP addresses, not the full bogon address space.

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Technology Short Take #77

Scott Lowe

Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. Vivek Gite over at nixCraft explains how to use ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall) on Ubuntu to limit SSH connections. Who would have thought that one day you’d refer to a Microsoft web site for instructions on configuring something in Linux? Read this post.)

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Technology Short Take #49

Scott Lowe

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. I don’t think I’ve mentioned this before; if I have, please forgive me.

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Technology Short Take #53

Scott Lowe

I think Brent Salisbury is going to be the “star” of this Technology Short Take, since I’ve got several articles of his that I want to reference. Roie Ben Haim, who works in professional services at VMware, has a deep dive on the NSX distributed firewall (DFW). Keep up the great work, Brent!) Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: The Basics of Local DNS for Small Business.

Sean Daniel

In the Windows Services console (services.msc), it's referred to as "Windows Server LAN Configuration" -- not "LAN Config" or "LAN Configuration" I quickly opened services.msc and searched for both of those terms -- couldn't find either. 10/28/2011 7:43 PM. OK -- we should be a little clearer here guys.