by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Sep 18, 2010 | Server Administration, Server Management
I know I said I’d talk about IPv6 DNS records in this post, but I realized that we’d have to cover a few basics first. So lets cover those first before moving on… IPv6 in your OS Latest releases of all major OSes currently support IPv6 out of the...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Sep 16, 2010 | Server Administration
We have covered quite some ground in the previous posts as part1 and part2. Lets conclude this here with the part 3. Targeted Policy The Red Hat Targeted Policy targets certain services for special protection through SELinux. Web services: httpd, squid Name and...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Sep 14, 2010 | Server Administration
“Your computer is not secure! Download our scanner now to help protect your PC!” This is probably the last pop-up you’ll see before all hell breaks loose. Most malware aren’t so obvious, and tend to hit you with very little effort from your...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Sep 9, 2010 | Server Administration, Server Management
Well, if your already setup, then you wont have to worry too much. At the current rate, the general opinion is that new hosts will have to be assigned IPv6 addresses by 2012(if the world doesn’t end). So if those hosts wish to communicate with the other IPv4...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Sep 7, 2010 | Server Administration
We have covered basics of SELinux, and security contexts in the last blog. Now we move on to detailed explanation of policies and archiving SELinux attributes etc. Targeted, strict and MLS Policies Redhat supports three policies – Targeted, Strict and MLS. The...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Sep 5, 2010 | Server Administration
Microsoft announced the general availability of the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 on August 25th (They released the beta in June in case you missed it). Like the SP for Server 2008R2, this SP also includes more than just bug fixes. For a list of...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Sep 3, 2010 | cPanel, Server Administration
The purpose of this article is to cover basic concepts and operations of administering SE Linux on an RHEL or Fedora system. This was penned to make an intro level HOWTO for getting started with SE Linux. My friend has already given an intro for this topic and I am...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Sep 1, 2010 | Server Administration
Hey, welcome back! I knew you wanted to know more about deciphering email headers. If you haven’t done so already, please do go through the first part of this series. In this part we’ll be looking into email headers in detail and I’ll disclose what...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Aug 30, 2010 | Server Administration
.htaccess is only a file in your home folder. But it can do wonders. It can change settings on the servers and allow you to do many different things. The .htaccess file isn’t difficult to use and is really just made up of a few simple instructions in a text...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Aug 29, 2010 | Server Administration
If you haven’t seen the changes yet, make sure you hit the refresh button a couple of times…Bobcares.com now has a new look! and so does our Blog! We’ve always felt like an open book…and now we look like one too! We are firm believers in...
