Category: Server
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RadiusManager Time Expiration Update Script
RadiusManager by DMASoftlabs is a cheap, easy to use radius front end that will authenticate pppoe, hotspot, whatever accounts. One downside is the support isn’t the greatest. You occasionally have to do some hacking on your own. The particular fix I made with this script is that if you have date expiration customers(as in they…
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Linux Script To Test Secure POP3
I placed the script int he root folder as /root/poptest.sh. #!/bin/bash echo "x" | openssl s_client -connect 127.0.0.1:995 > /root/pop3test.txt if grep -Fq "POP3 server ready" /root/pop3test.txt then # code if found echo "found" else # code if not found echo "not found" service zimbra restart fi I then created a cron job that runs…
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TheBrothersWISP 18 – GPON, GAON, AirFiber, New Mikrotik, New Ubiquiti, Mimosa
It’s been ages since we’ve gotten together, but we had a pretty good showing. Greg Sowell, Tom Smyth, Justin Miller, Mike Hammet, and JJ Boyd talk shop. Some of the things discussed: GPON airFiber/New Ubiquiti Gear New Mikrotik gear – Thanks for assembling everything Andrew Cox! New Mimosa gear Observium monitoring tools Cacti monitoring tools…
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How To Setup A Backup Radius Manager Install
Radius Manager is a product from DMA softlabs that acts as a radius authentication system for your wireless or hotspot clients. I personally use it for my hotspot clients in Mikrotik. The point of this article is to show you how to add some redundancy to your configuration. The software is licensed via a MAC…
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Root Hints On BIND DNS Servers
DNS is the resolution protocol for the interwebz. Basically, when your browser does a lookup for a URL it asks your configured DNS server to tell him what IP address the content lives at…but how does your DNS server know where to look for this information? The Root servers, of course. What are they you…
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Monitor Bind With Cacti
If someone puts in a support ticket saying they are having DNS issues with your server, what do you do to quantify how your server is acting…? This is the “boat” I found myself in a while back. I decided to use cacti to poll my devices. I happen to run Bind9. I built off…
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Centos VM Duplication Not Detecting NIC
So I duplicated a VM in VMware 5.5 that happened to be Centos 6. I added a new NIC and set the NIC type to E1000. I booted up the machine and…nothing. It didn’t see the NIC. I ran setup…and it didn’t see the NIC. After much time an annoyance I eventually issued one simple…