Author: C.J. Collier

  • Obligatory Ferry Photo

  • We so cutes!

  • Vacation!

    We haven’t vacated Orcas yet, but we plan to soon…

  • When was the last time you upgraded from squeeze to wheezy?

    Wow. 3G delta. I haven’t booted this laptop for a while… I think I’m finally ready to make the move from gnome2 to gnome3. There are bits that still annoy me, but I think it’s off to a good start. Upgrading perl from 5.10 to 5.14. cjac@calcifer:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists… Done Building…

  • iptables and the PREROUTING chain

    So it looks like the PREROUTING chain does not exist in the filter table. When attempting to drop packets in the PREROUTING chain, you need to specify the table. For instance, the nat table: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth2 -s 10.18.83.0/24 -d ! 172.16.0.0/12 -m multiport –dports 80,8080 -j DNAT –to…

  • Confirmation of receipt

    The UTC confirms receipt of forms submitted complete to the best knowledge of Collier Technologies LLC I do not know anything about Collier Technologies Inc. though.  I heard they were expelled from the program for failure to pay fines of a questionable judgment.

  • OpenVPN configs with inline data

    I’ve been issuing a lot of x.509 certs and OpenVPN user configurations lately, and I came across something that has reduced the complexity quite a bit. It seems that OpenVPN configuration files can now include data inline. So rather than generating and distributing the following for each user: a configuration file a chain of CA…

  • I’m back on the internet 6 it seems.

    cjac@foxtrot:/usr/src/deb/strongswan-5.1.0$ ping6 -c 5 google.com | tail -3 — google.com ping statistics — 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4004ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 65.235/74.957/103.039/14.122 ms go go gadget ipsec

  • Should I stay up all night?

    And make you all some treats?  For Christmas?  Or another holiday of your choosing?  Such as Solstice or something? Also: happy very Solstice.

  • Maxine is now running on mariadb

    So back when I was working for MySQL AB as support manager for MaxDB, I created an IRC bot to help manage the #maxdb channel on Freenode. We didn’t get a lot of traffic, and Daniel De Graaf mentioned that he could use a bot to help manage some iptables factoids over on #netfilter. So…