14 Jul 2019
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Tags:
Avaya,
Informix,
SQL,
Solaris
As a sysadmin one of my responsibilities is the management of an Avaya telephone system, a component of which is Avaya Call Management System (CMS). Avaya CMS collects call traffic data and provides a means of reporting against it. In addition to the reports included as standard, CMS also provides...
02 Jun 2019
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Tags:
nslookup,
BIND,
DNS,
PowerShell
I recently discovered a problem with the domain name of a website I manage. Attempting to resolve a DNS record which had been created a few days earlier was resulting in intermittent failures. This post details the process I used to diagnose the problem with nslookup and how I turned...
26 Apr 2019
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Tags:
WordCamp,
WordPress,
PHP,
WPScan,
wpxf,
sqlmap,
nghttp,
PsySH,
3v4l.org,
WP-CLI,
PowerShell
WordCamp London (WCLDN) was held at the
London Metropolitan University on 5th - 7th April 2019. The first day was to
promote contributing to the WordPress project, followed by a two day conference.
I attended both days of the conference.
10 Mar 2019
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Tags:
Bash,
Script,
OpenSSL,
Linux,
TLS
I was recently assigned the task of configuring TLS cipher suite settings on a number of hosts (servers and other devices). Whilst making the configuration changes I required a means of testing which cipher suites were enabled. I needed to be able to quickly and easily repeat the tests until...
31 Jan 2019
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Tags:
MySQL,
SQL
The MySQL CLI client tools such as mysql and mysqldump have the ability to read options from a file. This serves as an alternative to supplying each required option as a command line argument. This is particularly useful when automating MySQL tasks, it saves having to devise your own config...
