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Just had a client call from holidays in India who couldn't connect to an IPv4 RDS environment. The problem was the ISP connection there looked to be IPv6 and for some reason it couldn't connect to our RDS gateway. Having them go to https://whatismyipaddress.com showed...

Exetel IPv6 learnings on Unifi UDM Exetel hands out a /60 by default Note: The IPv6 addresses below have been tweaked to hide the actual network prefix and host portion. Exetel by default hands out a prefix designation of /60 (see below on how to view that in the UDM...

Just migrated an Azure Linux Ubuntu 22.04 VM to XCP-ng and got it running successfully Here are my rough steps: Create a snapshot of the VM in Azure (good idea to shut down the VM when you have a VM that writes data all the time) Convert the snapshot to a disk (Mine...

When running docker ps -a in the default WSL instance you see "Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?" Solution: Goto Resources WSL Integration and make sure Enable integration with my default WSL distro and...

Recently our EDI supplier notified that they were changing their SFTP encryption and data integrity algorithms I use https://api.phpseclib.com/3.0/phpseclib3/Net/SFTP.html to talk to their SFTP gateway. So I to confirm the change would not cause an issue I had to...

The performance of both the Windows and Powershell Zip utilities is abysmal The following Powershell script enables a Zip operation on approximately 0.33GB of data consisting of around 59,000 files to go from minutes down to less than a minute using 7-Zip instead of...