My last update on getting Bonjour/mDNS working on my network ended with “If it ain’t broke”… Sadly, the broke state cropped up at some point between then and now. Home sharing with the Apple TV was no longer working, and nothing had changed on my end to break it. Apple may have changed things on… Continue reading mDNS Update
Category: Tech
Splunk Reporting: Port Scans
It’s been a while since I’ve done some Splunk work on my home network, but lately I’ve been thinking about port scans, specifically about reporting on port scans against my environment. I’m not terribly worried about people scanning my network since it is quite locked down, but why not check on it to see if anything interesting… Continue reading Splunk Reporting: Port Scans
Crypto 1
I’ve been taking my first MOOC via Coursera, Crypto 1, taught by Dan Boneh. I’ve just finished up the final, and it’s been a fantastic experience, something I’d recommend to anybody with an interest in the subject. This course is more about theory that how to implement crypto in the real world, but the theory… Continue reading Crypto 1
Replacing Chef’s self-signed certificates
Having gotten my home network and logging to a point where I wanted it, my next project was going to be Chef. Life intervened before I got too much involved with Chef, but now that things are approaching a sense of normalcy, I’m trying to pick up where I left off. My ultimate goal is… Continue reading Replacing Chef’s self-signed certificates
Bonjour!: mDNS and iTunes Home Sharing on EdgeOS
Ever since I’ve set up my home network, Home Sharing hasn’t worked between our Apple TV and my desktop computer. It’s been a minor annoyance that I really didn’t look into before now, but I had some time yesterday to troubleshoot it and get it working just in time to watch Little Women, which Julia… Continue reading Bonjour!: mDNS and iTunes Home Sharing on EdgeOS
Installing Google Authenticator on CentOS
After a conversation at work about how easy it is to use Google Authenticator for two-factor authentication, I decided that installing Google Authenticator on my CentOS server would be my next project. After all, I had recently automated download of website log files, and I needed to find the next to-do at home. Installing Google… Continue reading Installing Google Authenticator on CentOS
Log File Automation
When I set up Splunk reporting for my website, it was a purely manual process, and I left for the future the goal of pulling the logs automatically. Since then, that’s exactly what I’ve done, so now it runs completely automatically. Below is how.
Setting up a PKI
Since setting up my home network, I’ve been playing around with pieces of it. Today, when I was logging into the web interface of my EdgeLite Router, I noticed that dreaded red X through the https in Chrome, because Chrome didn’t trust the default self-signed certificate that came with the router. Why not replace that… Continue reading Setting up a PKI
Windows Woes
I’m not much of a fan of Windows, but a couple of applications that I use a lot (Quicken and Adobe Lightroom, for example) don’t run on Linux. Also, gaming on Windows is still much easier than gaming on Linux. As a result, I use Window 7 Ultimate as my main computer. Yesterday, when I… Continue reading Windows Woes
Splunk Reporting: Mapping Brute Force Attempts
As part of my home network setup, I talked a bit about how I set up Splunk and used it for metrics on firewall performance. Splunk is an incredibly powerful tool and can be used for much, much more than that. This weekend I pretty easily set up a cool new dashboard to monitor brute-force… Continue reading Splunk Reporting: Mapping Brute Force Attempts