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Cannot ping IPv6 from a TrueNAS hosted Virtual Machine
truenas virtualization network issue byu/Kv0837 intruenas From the above Reddit thread What you need is a bridge for your main interface and then set the bridge as a NIC in your VM. I'll paste here a quick step by step that I wrote for some time ago but should still...
Find files between two time stamps
mints="2026-07-24 01:52:00" maxts="2026-07-24 01:55:00" find . -newermt "$mints" ! -newermt "$maxts"
Block or allow access to WordPress security sensitive locations using nested locations with nginx or angie
How do you selectively block access to all static files under a folder (e.g. /wp-admin/) but make sure that the .php files are executed properly when access is allowed, and without creating a heap of location blocks and tearing your hair out due to nginx selecting the...
Nginx / Angie Dummy Default Site
Stop your nginx instance from replying with the first valid SSL cert and nothing from port 80 when people hit the server without a valid hostname # /etc/angie/http.d/default.conf server { listen 80 default_server; listen [::]:80 default_server; listen 443 ssl...
Angie – GeoIP – Forbid wp-login.php and /wp-admin/ and allow whitelisting and blacklisting IP’s
GeoIP lookup apt install mmdb-bin geoipupdate angie-module-geoip2 mmdblookup --ip 2603:1010:200::32c --file /var/lib/GeoIP/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb country iso_code "AU" <utf8_string> mmdblookup --ip 52.147.37.48 --file /var/lib/GeoIP/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb country...
WakeMeOnLAN – Watching for WOL packets with tcpdump
If you want to see WOL traffic on the LAN try this tcpdump snippet WakeMeOnLAN.exe uses port 40,000 by default so you'll miss it if you just use 9 # on a Unifi UDM sudo tcpdump -i br99 udp port 9 or udp port 40000 Where -i br99 is the interface on a Linux based host #...