Part 4 of setting up a Linux home lab environment with VirtualBox. Check this blog post for more info.
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a network protocol that automatically assigns TCP/IP information to client machines. Each DHCP client connects to the centrally located DHCP server, which returns the network configuration (including the IP address, gateway, and DNS servers) of that client. Continue reading
Part 3 of setting up a Linux home lab environment with VirtualBox. Check this blog post for more info.
NTP is used to synchronise the time on our Linux system with a centralised NTP server. A local NTP server on the network can be synchronised with an external timing source to keep all the servers in our organisation in-sync with an accurate time. Continue reading
Part 2 of setting up a Linux home lab environment with VirtualBox. Check this blog post for more info.
BIND is open source software that implements the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols for the Internet. The name BIND stands for “Berkeley Internet Name Domain”. Continue reading
Part 1 of setting up a Linux home lab environment with VirtualBox. Check this blog post for more info.
VirtualBox is a powerful and feature rich x86/AMD64/Intel64 virtualisation product for enterprise as well as home use. Continue reading
This post has been sitting in my drafts folder for quite some time now. It was easier to set everything up than to find spare time to do a write-up. Continue reading
Psad is a tool used to analyse iptables log messages to detect port scans and other suspicious traffic. Continue reading
Setting up Spacewalk software content management system on CentOS. Continue reading
Installing a Graylog2 log management platform for collecting, indexing, and analysing data. Continue reading
Renew your satellite certificate for Spacewalk on CentOS 6. Continue reading
We’re using MySQL 5.5 and Debian Wheezy in this example. Continue reading