Category Archives: tech

Grab it while it’s good!

Scrawlr is tool that HP recently release for doing some simple testing of web sites for SQL injection points. One of the limitations on this free tool was that it could only do 1500 pages on your site. But apparently they’ve been distributing debug builds (which have a 2.1 billion page limit) this entire time!
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DNS relations

A couple days ago my servers were unavailable, not because any actual problem with the server, but with the DNS. Turns out that the domain I was using for the nameserver address expired and someone else registered it. Quite the bummer, but an easy fix by attaching new nameservers to the domain. So now everything [...]

Network Mapping: Deuce

Today I realized that most of the addresses that had issues with incorrect locations of the network map may have been related to old and expired reverse DNS entries. Apparently part of our supernet DNS wasn’t being deleting old reverse lookup entries. Of all the misplaced network nodes, the entries seemed to all corresponded to [...]

Networking

Woohoo! After months of trying to figure out VPN settings, I’ve finally got me a VPN going! This break through should allow me greater control over the “ericknet” nodes.

For the Win(SCP)

I just found the most awesomest feature of WinSCP! You can sync folders!!!
The thing is called “Keep Remote directory up to date” and you can find it under the “Commands” menu.
I guarantee, you’ll never leave your code again…well maybe for a video or some social interaction, but not much else!