It’s been 48 hours since Dandy’s visit to the specialist. Dr Rushing had recommended a CT scan and immediate surgery, since it is very likely that Dandy has had a recurrence of a herniated disc. However, the prohibitive cost of both items plus the timing of the last surgery (it’s only been about 10 [...]
I’ve been using a lot of this lately:
iptables -A INPUT -s IP-ADDRESS -j DROP service iptables save
I’ve noticed that pop3 attempts aren’t being filtered by Fail2Ban; I’ve seen an increase in dictionary attacks on this port and have had to resort to manually banning the offenders. I’ve also installed a LogViewer in [...]
Getting email accepted by another domain has become quite a headache for systems administrators. Because of security issues, mail servers have had to clamp down on who exactly will be permitted to send mail to their users. I’m still encountering intermittent problems with some domains accepting our emails; although the big offenders like AOL [...]
I’ve been troubleshooting email send/receive issues for as long as I remember, usually in most varieties of Windows mail clients, including Outlook Express and Windows Mail. Eliminating any remote mail server issues, sending and receiving emails tend to be the most frequent problems encountered–often fixed by diagnosing the network connection (checking settings or [...]
Today, during a routine plugin update, I discovered that WP 3.0 has a implemented a maintenance mode, which effectively takes the site “offline”. To be specific, visitors receive a message indicating the unavailability of the site during maintenance operations. Of course, I encountered a failure (most likely related to the timeout issues [...]