https://nfalcone.net/ Recent content on /home/nick Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 18 Feb 2019 07:16:56 -0400 https://nfalcone.net/blog/dell-r7425-not-responding-vmware/ Mon, 18 Feb 2019 07:16:56 -0400 https://nfalcone.net/blog/dell-r7425-not-responding-vmware/ Recently got 4 new Dell R7425 servers, all running ESXI 6.5U2. After a few days we were getting hosts intermittenly going Not Responding in vcenter. I knew something was up, upon checking the console via DRAC trying to turn on SSH via the ESXI console screen took about 30 minutes. Before involving Vmware and Dell Support, the only solution seemed to be powering off the VMs and reseting the host. https://nfalcone.net/blog/dotnet35-win-2012/ Mon, 18 Feb 2019 07:16:56 -0400 https://nfalcone.net/blog/dotnet35-win-2012/ We have WSUS so we have to do this… I know there is a way to publish DotNet 3.5 via WSUS but this seems quicker for the once off times 3.5 is needed. First get your Server 2012 R2 ISO and copy this folder D:\sources\sxs (repace D:\ with whatever your optical drive is) to your desktop Then open powershell or CMD as admin and run: dism.exe /online /enable-feature /all /featurename:NetFX3 /source:"c:\users\admin\desktop\sxs" Thats it! https://nfalcone.net/blog/visualeditor-parsoid-debian-stretch/ Mon, 18 Feb 2019 07:16:56 -0400 https://nfalcone.net/blog/visualeditor-parsoid-debian-stretch/ Documentation for installing these two pieces of software exist but seem a bit lacking since I was not successful without some modifications I have included below. First install the VisualEditor plugin like any other MediaWiki plugin described here under the For the General User section. Next we need to install parsoid which is the server piece to the VisualEditor plugin. These commands are assumed you are running as root, if not add sudo. https://nfalcone.net/blog/online-net-ipv6-lxd-host/ Sun, 17 Feb 2019 07:16:56 -0400 https://nfalcone.net/blog/online-net-ipv6-lxd-host/ I bought a Start-2-XS-SATA from Online.net. For its low cost and high amount of storage I thought I could turn it into a nice little LXD server. These directions are pretty standard and should work with just about anything from Online.net, but the benefit here is the cheap server and not having to buy multiple IPv4. Also note this was tested on Ubuntu 18.04 because LXD does not easily ship on Debian yet. https://nfalcone.net/blog/wireguard-vpn-debian-server/ Mon, 07 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://nfalcone.net/blog/wireguard-vpn-debian-server/ WireGuard is a next-gen VPN server that is supposed to be more simple to configure than OpenVPN, while being faster and beter on latency in the tunnel. Currently it is not listed as a stable piece of software, but in its current state it is still useful and useable. This article was written and tested using Debian 9 on a Vultr VPS, but should work on any deb based distro. https://nfalcone.net/blog/setup-ipfs-node/ Sun, 06 Jan 2019 07:16:56 -0400 https://nfalcone.net/blog/setup-ipfs-node/ IPFS is a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open. It is similar to combining HTTP publishing with bittorrent. In order to participate and publish files one needs to run a node. These instructions assume running as root, so add sudo if not. Get latest version of ipfs node software and install. wget https://dist.ipfs.io/go-ipfs/v0.4.18/go-ipfs_v0.4.18_linux-amd64.tar.gz tar zxvf go-ipfs_v0.4.18_linux-amd64.tar.gz mv go-ipfs/ipfs /usr/local/bin/ chmod +x /usr/loca/bin/ipfs create a user for ipfs to run as https://nfalcone.net/blog/syncthing-relay-server/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 07:16:56 -0400 https://nfalcone.net/blog/syncthing-relay-server/ Syncthing is an awesome tool for keeping a folder in sync among multiple computers or servers. Its a great open source alternative to Resilo Sync (previously BTsync). In order for computers to find each other to begin syncing folders the software relies on relays. A nice way to give back to an open source software project like this is running a relay. These work great on a VPS or similar computer with lots of fast bandwidth. https://nfalcone.net/blog/openbsd-httpd-certbot/ Thu, 19 Oct 2017 07:16:56 -0400 https://nfalcone.net/blog/openbsd-httpd-certbot/ This was tested on OpenBSD 6.2, your experience may very depending on your version. httpd is chroot’d so the /htdocs in the config below refers to /var/www/htdocs on the actual server filesystem. Enable httpd echo 'httpd_flags=""' > /etc/rc.conf.local Now install certbot and request our certificate: (In previous OpenBSD versions it was called acmeclient) echo 'export PKG_PATH=https://ftp5.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.2/packages/amd64/' >> /root/.profile pkg_add -v certbot certbot certonly --standalone --preferred-challenges http -d example.com Next let’s create our httpd config https://nfalcone.net/blog/imapsync-debian-jessie/ Thu, 27 Apr 2017 07:16:56 -0400 https://nfalcone.net/blog/imapsync-debian-jessie/ Because of some licensing dispute/change Imapsync is no longer in Debian or Ubuntu default repos and has to be compiled from source. There are a lot of sites out there with instructions to get it working on a Debian or ubuntu server but none of them ever totally worked for me. I compiled these instructions after a bit of trial and error and have migrated a bunch of mail servers with this great tool. https://nfalcone.net/blog/shortel-phone-sophos-xg-dhcp/ Tue, 11 Apr 2017 07:16:56 -0400 https://nfalcone.net/blog/shortel-phone-sophos-xg-dhcp/ Not a lot of documentation seeems to exist yet for the Sophos XG firewalls, and what does exist is somewhat sparse. For some of our smaller sites that do not have a full fledged Windows server providing DHCP, we use whatever is built into the firewall. This can be added to your Sophos XG firewall in just two commands. First open console on your Sophos XG, whether that is via the web console Or via SSH and select 4) Then we need to create the actual option for the DHCP config https://nfalcone.net/blog/uninstall-exchange-2010-error/ Tue, 11 Apr 2017 07:16:56 -0400 https://nfalcone.net/blog/uninstall-exchange-2010-error/ After wrapping up an Exchange 2016 migration it was time to decommission our old Exchange 2010 server.To do so, it is as easy as going to Control Panel > Programs and Features > and Uninstall Microsoft Exchange 2010 The uninstall wizard handles all the Active Directory object cleanup and removes the old server from the hybrid exchange group. When running though the wizard gives the error: Could not find any available Domain Controller in domain DC=d,DC=domain,DC=com. https://nfalcone.net/blog/danted-socks-proxy-server/ Thu, 23 Feb 2017 07:16:56 -0400 https://nfalcone.net/blog/danted-socks-proxy-server/ Since dante-server is no longer included in Debian’s repos (as of Squeeze?) this post describes how to install it on a Debian 8 Jessie system. Note that there are some security considerations with this software, including that it may be excluded from Debian because of. Also note you may need to run these commands with sudo in front of them if you are not root. First need to install some pre-reqs https://nfalcone.net/blog/php56-on-ubuntu-1404-server/ Fri, 11 Mar 2016 07:16:56 -0400 https://nfalcone.net/blog/php56-on-ubuntu-1404-server/ Ubuntu 14.04 is an LTS and great, stable release of Ubuntu Linux (the server edition). Though it was released in 2014, there are some issues with the age of packages available to it. One is PHP. The latest PHP for 14.04 is ~5.5.9 and is not scheduled to get a 5.6 package. To fix this we have to add some PPAs for the backported versions. First for PHP: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5-5. https://nfalcone.net/blog/building-openbsd-desktop-laptop/ Sun, 21 Feb 2016 07:16:56 -0400 https://nfalcone.net/blog/building-openbsd-desktop-laptop/ Note: This guide takes some liberties assuming you were able to install OpenBSD on your own. Also this guide was written and tested on the latest at the time OpenBSD 5.8. Also basic networking whether that is wired or wireless is needed to be setup, so that is up to you. First when installing OpenBSD make sure you say to: Do you expect to run the X Window System? [yes] yes Do you want the X Window System to be started by xdm(1)? https://nfalcone.net/blog/getting-started-hakyll-on-freebsd/ Wed, 17 Feb 2016 07:16:56 -0400 https://nfalcone.net/blog/getting-started-hakyll-on-freebsd/ Since I have recently switched my site over to be on FreeBSD 10.2 server I figured it would be a good time to write up how I got hakyll installed. Setting it up on Debian turned out to be a bit of an ordeal the first few times, so I was very pleasantly surprised to find out how much easier it was to install on FreeBSD. There is no hakyll package for FreeBSD so we will be installing cabal and installing via that, which is better anyway. https://nfalcone.net/blog/my-nextstations-next-month/ Tue, 16 Feb 2016 07:16:56 -0400 https://nfalcone.net/blog/my-nextstations-next-month/ In honor of NeXT Month for the month of February on /r/retrobattlestations Here’s a few pictures of my NeXT gear, I have a NeXTstation, NeXTstation Turbo, and NeXTstation Turbo Color. In the pics I was only able to get my Turbo mono to work. The regular NeXTstation I have is really just for parts and I am still trying to figure out why the Turbo Color does not turn on now (anyone have any ideas? https://nfalcone.net/blog/console-access-to-nortel-baystack-5510-48t/ Sun, 17 Jan 2016 07:16:56 -0400 https://nfalcone.net/blog/console-access-to-nortel-baystack-5510-48t/ For my homelab setup I purchased a Baystack 5510-48T, this filled my need for a manageable (semi)Layer 3 switch and at a great price. I really wanted some cisco gear but it was just way out of budget for the home. I snagged the switch off ebay for ~$50 which is amazing for 48 gig ports. 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