We heavily restrict outbound traffic for all of our EC2 instances. This is straightforward most of the time, but can be frustrating when you want to allow access to AWS services. AWS offers VPC endpoints for some services, such as S3, that allow us to make the AWS service available in our VPC without having to allow […]
I recently purchase several Jasco/GE Enbrighten Z-Wave Smart Switches for use with my VeraPlus Z-Wave Controller. I could NOT get the new smart switches to pair with the controller. I describe two separate techniques I successfully used to pair these switches with VeraPlus. Here are the specific products I am using. These are NOT referral […]
I take MANY photos (5000+ per year) at events with family and friends. I like to share all of these photos and definitely don’t want to lose them! I subscribed to SmugMug in February 2014 because their service seemed to solve two major problems for me: I wanted to share a majority of photos with […]
When I upgraded to Debian 10, IPsec VPN connections from Windows 10 clients to our Debian 10 VPN server stopped working. It seems that Windows is configured to use MODP_1024 (DH Group 2), but Debian 10 is requiring MODP_2048 (DH Group 14) or better. Here’s the relevant output from /var/log/daemon.log showing the “received proposals” from […]
Upgrading Debian 9 (Stretch) to Debian 10 (Buster) did not provide a smooth Icinga upgrade in my experience. Maybe the process would have gone more smoothly if I had updated my Icinga apt repo source file from stretch to buster before my OS upgrade from Debian 9 to Debian 10 instead of after? Debian removed […]
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