Category: Server
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Searching LDAP for a NULL Value
The easiest way I’ve found to find a null value is to search for (whatever=\00). The “\00” is the escape sequece for null.
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IPPlan and RWhois Integration Script
Pull all of your records from IPPlan and insert them into your RWhois server automatically. If you are an ISP or large enterprise you will need to keep up with your addressing and assignments somehow, right? There are only a handful of products out there that will do this. The company I work for is…
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Failover DNS Change Script
So, as promised, here is my DNS change script. This is written in php for a BIND DNS server. Right now it is very simplistic; it is made to change a single A record, but can be adapted to do multiples at once. This is designed to be used in conjunction with Webmin. Setup a…
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Windows IIS SMTP Test Scripts
I wrote a couple of Autoit scripts to test if a Windows IIS SMTP server is responding properly. The first is [download#4]. This guy connects to the local mail relay and sends an email. Simple. You supply it with three command line parameters: from address, to address and subject. The second, called [download#3], checks the…
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Bind 9 – “refused notify from non-master”
I was adding a new slave DNS server the other day on bind 9.3 and I was getting this error “refused notify from non-master”. It seems that if you are using bind 9.3 it tries to send a notify to itself even if it is a slave. In the options section of named.conf you need…