https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-route-web-traffic-securely-without-a-vpn-using-a-socks-tunnel The above link has a how-to on running a socks5 proxy just by using ssh. PS I have used Digital Ocean for 3+ years and except for one instance of...
Recently had a macbook pro which had a network dongle that was very hot and the network connection stopped working. Found that the dongle was sending garbled signal down the wire and the Cisco switch shutdown the port. # all status show interfaces status # port...
I did an upgrade recently and suddenly nginx wasn't forwarding requests to remote hosts on non-standard ports.... this was on a CentOS host which had seLinux enabled. Turn seLinux off temporarily setenforce 0 Does nginx now work proxying to non-standard ports? Turn it...
I recently moved my company's Administration Offices from one site to another. Simple I thought. Purchase a new internet connection move the email server and reconfigure email to be sent and received on the new internet connection Apparently not. A few days after...
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