Toward simple confusion
p105: Bikkhus, there was a time when [determining to seek the Way] I, still young, with glossy black hair and full of youth, in the prime of life and despite the unwillingness of [my] parents who wept and lametnted, cut off [my] hair and beard, donned the robe [of a smana], and left home as a homless ascetic.”
To look up: Mahavira the founder of Jainism
Q: How to setup transparent Squid proxy.
A: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $INT_IFACE -p tcp –dport 80 -j REDIRECT –to-port 3128
Q: Iptables version of stopping syn flooding
A:
#Create syn-flood chain for detecting Denial of Service attacks
iptables -t nat -N syn-flood
#Limit 12 connections per second (burst to 24)
iptables -t nat -A syn-flood -m limit –limit 12/s –limit-burst 24 -j RETURN
iptables -t nat -A syn-flood -j DROP
#Check for DoS attack
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $EXT_IFACE -d $DEST_IP -p tcp –syn -j syn-flood
There are statisitics on registrars at: http://www.whois.sc/internet-statistics/registrar-stats.html. More info also at: wwww.registrarstats.com and www.dailychanges.com. My top two pics are eNom and and tucows opneSRS. I opted for openSRS first and foremost because it was a unix solution. Second there is active support in the open source community, so there are very stable and robust APIs available in php and other languages. eNom looked nice, they had a bunch of flash i didnt care about. If you use their dns servers, you can have map.xyz.com be a map, among other things.
They are also big on name reselling templates. I dont really like cookie cutting ideas. the openSRS offered a far more customizable method of integration. Also, eNom uses windows servers and ASP. I try to stick to unix when i can, so I opted for openSRS. GoDaddy seemed very competitive to eNom. However, open source is very important to me. Im a sticklier for customizability without reinventing the wheel.
For our new T1 we were thinking about using virtual hosting software to handle quick changes. The top ones i found are:
Hsphere: 4.50 * 100 licences (min)+ 95 setup = $545. All payments are one time fees. Supports opensrs. Available in redhat rpms.
cpanel: 1yr: 599 (expires), 2 yr: 989, 2yr w/upgrade:1400. Supposedly one of the industry leaders
plesk 6: 100 domains: $399, 300 domains: $599. Cheap, but very unintuitive for me.
ensim: 250 domain: 499 (per server) (30 day gaurantee). Nice interface, good price.
vhost:Freeware solution, no demo available.
My top two pics are Hsphere and ensim based on price and my demo run. Hsphere supports openSRS which is a plus. Ensim was a per server licence which is hard in a distributive environment.