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Consul for Service Discovery

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Why Service Discovery ? Service Discovery effectively replacing having to manually assign or automate your own DNS entries for nodes on your network. Service Discovery aims to move even further away from treating VM’s like pets to cattle, by getting rid of the age old practice Hostname & FQDN having contextual value. Instead when using services … [Read more…]

Preventing (bind9) DNS Naughty-ness (named.conf & iptables/ufw) on Ubuntu

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If you run a DNS server on the Internet with a default configuration many people/robots will take advantage of you. The same is true for Mail, but that is another article. Needless to say if you are running a service on the Internet, the naughty goblins will find you. To thwart these dirty criminals all … [Read more…]