DNS shotgun for DNS testing

DNS Shotgun is capable of simulating real client behaviour by replaying captured traffic over selected protocol(s). The timing of original queries as well as their content is kept intact. https://dns-shotgun.readthedocs.io/en/stable/key-concepts/

Server Tip from a non-server guy

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LibreNMS syslog.ibd cleanup

Recently I ran into an issue where a librenms install was taking up a crazy amount of disk space. This was tracked down to the syslog.ibd file . Even thought I had set my options to be less than 10 …

PHP 7.3 and 7.4 Woes and solution

So this weekend I have been doing some LibreNMS installs and have been having to change the default CentOS PHP version. If it is Centos7 PHP 7.3 is recommend and if it’s Centos 8 then PHP 7.4 is recommended. I …

Some WordPress tips

If you are wanting to force non SSL to SSL. Add the following to your site’s .htaccess file Set proper file permissions Script from https://www.ryadel.com/en/set-file-system-permissions-wordpress-web-site-centos-7-chmod/ # # This script configures WordPress file permissions based on recommendations # from http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress#File_permissions # …