Networking

How to Configure syslog on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure syslog on FreeBSD 12

Introduction Deploying configure syslog on freebsd 12 on a FreeBSD 12 machine differs from Linux in several important ways: packages come from the FreeBSD Ports Collection or the binary pkg repository, services are registered in /etc/rc.conf via sysrc(8), and firewall rules are written in pf.conf(5) syntax. This tutorial stays entirely within the standard base + […]

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How to Set Up IIS Centralized Certificate Store on Windows Server 2022 — step-by-step Windows Server 2022 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up IIS Centralized Certificate Store on Windows Server 2022

How to Install Python on Windows Server 2022 Python is increasingly common on Windows Server — for automation scripts, data pipelines, web APIs (Flask, FastAPI, Django), machine learning workloads, and DevOps tooling. Windows Server 2022 does not include Python, so it must be installed manually. This guide covers downloading and installing Python from python.org, the […]

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RHEL 7 Yum Metadata Expired Behind Proxy – RHEL 7 Post 076

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 9 January 2023 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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Windows Server 2016 Large File Copy Stalls at 99 Percent Over SMB 3 Encryption – Fix & Prevention

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 9 January 2023 Affected versions: Windows Server 2016 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors […]

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How to Configure Network File System Automount on IBM AIX 7.2 — step-by-step IBM AIX 7.2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Network File System Automount on IBM AIX 7.2

Introduction IBM AIX 7.2 is the latest release of IBM’s enterprise-grade UNIX operating system, running on IBM Power Systems hardware. Known for its reliability, security, and performance in mission-critical environments, AIX 7.2 introduces enhanced virtualization, security hardening, and cloud integration features. This guide covers how to configure network file system automount on ibm aix 7.2 […]

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Initial Server Setup with RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

Initial Server Setup with RHEL 9

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (RHEL 9, codenamed “Plow”) is the most significant release of RHEL in years, built on Linux kernel 5.14, OpenSSL 3.0, and shipped with a hardened-by-default security posture including SELinux enforcing mode, nftables as the default firewall backend, and full support for the latest POWER, ARM, and x86_64 architectures. Whether you […]

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How to Configure Windows Server 2022 Routing and Remote Access — step-by-step Windows Server 2022 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Windows Server 2022 Routing and Remote Access

How to Configure SSL/TLS in IIS on Windows Server 2022 Securing your IIS websites with SSL/TLS is essential for protecting data in transit and establishing trust with visitors. Windows Server 2022 ships with IIS 10, which supports modern TLS configurations including TLS 1.3. This guide covers obtaining and importing SSL certificates, binding them to IIS […]

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How to Scan for Vulnerabilities with OpenVAS on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Scan for Vulnerabilities with OpenVAS on RHEL 9

OpenVAS, now distributed as Greenbone Community Edition (GCE), is one of the most comprehensive open-source vulnerability scanners available, capable of identifying thousands of known CVEs across network services, web applications, and operating system configurations. Installing it natively on RHEL 9 requires complex dependency management, so the recommended approach is to deploy it via Docker Compose, […]

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How To Isolate Servers Within A Private Network Using Iptables — step-by-step Security tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Isolate Servers Within A Private Network Using Iptables

In this tutorial, we will teach you how to use a Iptables with shared private networking to simulate the network traffic isolation that a true private network can provide. We will also cover why you would want to do this, and provide an example of how to implement this in your own environment. The example should explain the concept well enough that you should be able to adapt the configuration to your own needs.

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