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Hosted Munin

New project; a hosted version of the munin (http://munin-monitoring.org/) server, running on: http://hostedmunin.com/ Munin is an open source solution for collecting metrics from servers and plotting them on trend graphs. It has a simplicity that beats all other monitoring solutions I’ve … Continue reading

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Detecting IP-over-DNS, part two.

As mentioned earlier, I did some work on detecting IP-over-DNS traffic as a part of my masters degree from NTNU in Communication Technology with focus on information security. My final method was to, and this may be cheating, look at … Continue reading

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Detecting IP-over-DNS

I wrote my master’s thesis at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) during the spring of 2010. My assignment was “Covert channels in the Domain Name System”, but for the most part it is about detecting an IP-over-DNS … Continue reading

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Kindle 3

I am now(-ish) the proud owner of an Amazon Kindle with WiFi and 3g. After having used it for reading 1,5 sci-fi novels, I must say I think it works. One problem is of course the complete lack of Norwegian … Continue reading

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obdtester.com ELM-USB specifics

I’ve bought a ELM-USB from obdtester.com. It interfaces the OBC-II bus found in just about all recent cars into a serial port over USB. Inside the case there are two circuit boards: One marked “Generic OBDII Board” and one marked … Continue reading

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Neat OpenStreetMap (/geo) tools

It isn’t always so easy to find the different OSM initiatives around the web. People put up their pet project on some private web page, perhaps link it up from the osm wiki, or perhaps not. Here are some tools … Continue reading

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Qstartz BT-Q1300S in Linux

Yes. It does somewhat work for me using Ubuntu Jaunty. First you need to get the cdc-acm module patch, or a newer kernel, as mentioned here. from dmesg: [336437.465045] usb 4-1: acm_ctrl_irq – usb_submit_urb failed with result -19<6>usb 4-1: new  … Continue reading

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.no adds support for IPv6

Somewhat Important news: .no registry operator NORID now allows IPv6 glue on NS records in the .no zone. Regulations for .no was updated July 2nd 2009, see norid.no (in norwegian). These new rules allow for experimental IPv6 on name servers. … Continue reading

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IPv6 ND timeouts

IPv6 router advertisements (RA) is a method where a router notifies clients on a network/subnet that it is available. It also (for now) doubles as a stand-in for DHCP, since it can carry information about which prefix (network number) clients … Continue reading

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Uninett IPv6 workshop

Uninett, the Norwegien NREN, organized a two day IPv6 workshop this week. About 40 participants from different universities and colleges attended. I was there and gave a presentation on the status of NTNU IPv6 deployment. Short summary: NTNU has 1513 … Continue reading

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