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Category: Networks

Flash sometimes doesn't like SSL

Apr 24, 2011dropbear2 CommentsNetworksCertificate authority, Mozilla Firefox, Transport Layer Security, WWW

I found a strange problem recently.  Using Gallery I could always upload new pictures but someone else using Vista could not upload any pictures.  It didn’t matter if she used IE or Firefox, every single upload made Gallery come up with error #2038 (IO). I could say that anyone that uses Vista deserves everything they…

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Does your program use gethostbyname() ?

Jun 13, 2010dropbearNetworks, Softwareipv6

There has been some discussion on the Debian IPv6 list about how the function gethostbyname() has changed.  The manual page says this function is obsolete and with good reason. A new feature of the function is that if a hostname has both IPv4 and IPv6 entries then the order of the return values is not…

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Connecting to Internode IPv6 on Debian

Dec 2, 2009dropbearNetworks

A guide to getting connected on IP version 6 on Internode ISP

Bridging firewalls for ADSL Connections

Aug 7, 2007dropbearNetworksadsl, firewalls, iptables

For a long time I’ve had the 56k (hah – If I’m lucky) dialup. Between the modem and my local network was a nice Linux firewall, all was good. Then I changed my connection to ADSL from [Internode][], that was good too. I soon found out that I couldn’t put my firewall in as-is, that…

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SNMP Information from your DLink DSL-300 ADSL Modem

Jun 11, 2007dropbearNetworksdlink, snmp

The DLink DSL-300 ADSL modem has SNMP, information about what you can get out of it.

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