The internet has ushered in a new era, and in too many ways to count, it has made our lives smoother, easier, and more modern. There is another side to this, though: by and large, the internet connections in our homes fall far short of proper safety and security standards. While we go on using all of our smart devices – our phones, our tablets, our laptops, our smart appliances – they remain open to bad actors. Some standard routers are so ineff […]
I am currently writing on my thesis about malicous detection systems and started using indirectly pygments with latex. I am pretty happy with it since it supports all kind of text/code highlighting. That was why I was a bit surprised when I saw that there was nothing for plain old regular expressions. Normally I would create a pull request for such things but I am currently a bit short of time and this is far from being perfect. Still I want to s […]
I tried using Rancher v2 with Kubernetes a couple of times now. Everytime I ended up with errors like network plugin is not ready: cni config uninitialized failed to start containers: kubelet transport: authentication handshake failed: remote error: tls: bad certificate crypto/rsa: verification error All this error messages can mean a lot of different things but in my case it was because I re-deployed nodes without restarting/cleaning it. Apparen […]
If you are using the gitlab runner on your system you probably already saw the pile of cache containers he leaves after running pipelines. Thats nessecary cause .. well its a cache and could be reused. But I think after a certain amount of time its ok to clean-up the mess. If you search for it you probably end up with the gitlab-runner-docker-cleanup repository. It will clean-up cache containers after a certain threshold is reached. Since the git […]
This time my goal was to receive and send email via AWS. Sending mail is qickly done with your MTA but receiving mail is a bit more tricky. First of all I configured two MX records one for AWS and one for my own server which should act as backup server: lukas ~ > dig MX zauberstuhl.de [...] zauberstuhl.de. 10800 IN MX 50 mail.zauberstuhl.de. zauberstuhl.de. 10800 IN MX 10 inbound-smtp.eu-west-1.amazonaws […]