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These are some articles that I've written, in reverse chronological order.

Beyond network namespaces (2017-06-06)

Beyond network namespaces talks about why and how to use mount, network, and UTS namespaces together to make a very small virtual router.

ssh:// protocol handler (2016-03-27)

Notes on how to create a handler for ssh:// URIs.

Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) ZFS native root install (2016-03-27)

I created some notes on how to install Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) to a native ZFS root file system.

SSH Canonicalization (2016-01-09)

SSH Canonicalization explains what OpenSSH host name canonicalization is and why you would want to use it over the system resolver library, with examples.

Linux network namespaces (2015-11-13)

Linux network namespaces talks about how I used Linux network namespaces to test things for my Linux IP / subnet migrations article.

Linux IP / subnet migrations... (2015-11-13)

Linux IP / subnet migrations talks about how to enable communictaions before, during, and after IP / subnet migrations.

Empowering OpenSSH (2015-05-06)

Empowering OpenSSH is an article that discusses how and why to configure OpenSSH to fully utilize it's power. Hint: You can Empower OpenSSH to enable you to ssh (in)directly to systems on the other side of bastion hosts.

PTR delegation (2015-01-11)

PTR delegation is a write up on how do PTR delegation for a few IPs.

A Precarious State of Storage (2014-09-07)

This is the story of how I managed to get the storage on one of my systems in to a precarious state, and back out.

TShark Automation (2014-07-16)

Here's how I automated analyzing 1500+ packets with TShark.

Manual zone transfers (2014-06-18)

This is a process that you can use to manually transfer zones between two DNS servers that can't do a normal zone transfer for some reason.

Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation (2014-06-18)

Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation compares and contrasts different methods to delegate parts of the in-addr.arpa zone.

Apex Override (2014-06-16)

Apex Override is a DNS technique I use to override what names resolve to when I have the specific need to do so.

Play nice with others. (2014-06-16)

This is my general disclaimer stating that I have my white hat on and I'm playing nicely with others.

Which network interface? (2014-06-06)

This article explains how I identify which network interface is supposed to have what IP address.

Changing passwords in mass (2014-04-26)

This article explains about how I change passwords in mass on the accounts that I support.

SSH local port forwarding ... Anycast Style (2014-03-03)

SSH local port forwarding describes a technique that combines anycast and ssh port forwarding to access remote resources as if they were local without having to change anything in a client.

Network Load Balancing to a single host (2014-02-28)

This is how I configured Microsoft NLB to support the following two requirements.

Shell Customizations (2014-02-22)

Shell Customizations goes in to more details about how and why to customize your shell environment to fit your needs.

tar pipe (2014-02-08)

This is some quick and dirty documentation on tar pipes, what they are, how they work, and how to use them.

Virtual Host Redirects (2014-02-03)

Virtual Host Redirects explains how I do redirects from non-canonical domain name(s) to the canonical domain name.

On the Fastrack (2014-02-01)

This is a collection of my favorite On the Fastrack comics.

xkcd (2014-02-01)

This is a collection of my favorite xkcd comics.

Prompt Customizations (2014-01-26)

Prompt Customizations goes in to details about how and why I customize my shell prompt the way that I do.

Embracing sudo (2014-01-12)

Embracing sudo is a short explanation of how I'm configuring my environment to take the rough edges off of sudo.

Dynamic HTTP Redirects (2014-01-10)

Dynamic HTTP Redirects is my solution to the problem that I was ranting about in my HTTP redirects are your friend post.

Rotating images with HTTP redirects (2014-01-10)

Rotating images with HTTP redirects is my solution to have rotating images / adds / banners with out needing to save state on the server per rotation.