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So long, and thanks for all the fish !
This blog (exxor.xyz) is closing. If you added this blog's feed to a feed
reader, you can remove it and add Another Home Page's
feed instead.
What's gonna happen ?
Basically, all the posts here are moving to Another Home Page …
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After a first
and a
second
episode on Fail2ban, time for a third one.
What's happening this time ?
This time it's again about Wordpress, but for the people not running Wordpress.
It's also about PHPMyAdmin, but for the people not running PHPMyAdmin. I could
go on with a list of …
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In a previous episode I showed how to use only a static Nginx configuration to
display the client IP
address. This is fun,
but I thought things could get funnier and compatible with more web servers,
while still not using a big dynamic language like PHP or Python.
Although as …
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Because of some automated cronjob, I need a script to get the public IP address
associated to the host's Internet connection. There are a ton of websites that
show you your public IP address, but it's not always easy to parse HTML with a
simple shell script, and I do …
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The other day at ${DAYJOB}
, I needed to debug some firewall rules. When the
protocols are quite simple to configure (e.g. HTTP/S), running the client is
also simple (e.g. curl, wget). When things are more complicated to set up (e.g.
VPN), sometimes it's faster to just …
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After a first episode on Fail2ban focused on Wordpress bruteforce attacks, I thought it would be a useful to go back to something more generic. Fail2ban is mainly used to stop SSH bruteforce attacks, or at least that's how I see it used, with the good old sshd
jail. However …
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A while ago, I started to add some illustration pictures to my blog posts,
usually on the start. It's now part of the fun of writing a blog post : I like
that moment where I'm looking for something relevant to the article but find
something totally different (yet still relevant …
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Nowadays, bruteforce attacks on Wordpress blogs are common, and defending
against them is quite documented. However, I feel my setup is unusual, so I
thought it was worth a blog post. What's the goal ? I want to stop Wordpress
bruteforce attacks using Fail2ban.
So you just have to install this …
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Welcome to my new personal blog !
Wait... what ? Why a new blog, what's going on here and what's gonna happen on
the previous one ? What's the URL of the previous one already ? Alright, then,
let's start by answering questions about what already exists, and then talk
about the future.
Oh …
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