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How to Set Up Dante Proxy for Private Connections on Debian 11 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Dante Proxy for Private Connections on Debian 11

Proxy servers are a useful way of caching or obfuscating web traffic. This means that web requests can be served from different inbound or outbound addresses than they appear to be, by offloading the connection to intermediaries. For regular end users, this usually means allowing you to make web requests from a different IP address than your own. In this tutorial, you will be installing and configuring Squid to support a number of popular proxy protocols on Debian 11 server.

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How To Install and Secure Memcached on Ubuntu 22.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Secure Memcached on Ubuntu 22.04

In this guide, you will install and configure a Memcached server. You’ll also add authentication to secure Memcached using Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL). Finally, you’ll learn how to bind Memcached to a local or private network interface to ensure that it is only accessible on trusted networks, by authenticated users.

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How To Set Up an Endlessh Tarpit on Ubuntu 22.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up an Endlessh Tarpit on Ubuntu 22.04

When looking at authentication logs, you might see several failed login attempts from various IP addresses that often .come from a node on a botnet. While you may not be able to stop these attacks, you can slow them down with tarpits. In this tutorial, you will install and configure Endlessh, a tarpit that slowly sends an infinitely long banner to any user attempting login, as well as configure the SSH service to run on a different port.

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How To Set Up WireGuard on Debian 11 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up WireGuard on Debian 11

In this tutorial, you will set up WireGuard on a Debian 11 server, and then configure another machine to connect to it as a peer using both IPv4 and IPv6 connections (commonly referred to as a _dual stack_ connection). You’ll also learn how to route the peer’s Internet traffic through the WireGuard server in a gateway configuration, in addition to using the VPN for an encrypted peer-to-peer tunnel.

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