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Consul for Service Discovery

On May 14, 2016November 11, 2017 By tuxninja

Why Service Discovery ? Service Discovery effectively replaces the process of 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 of Hostname

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

On November 11, 2015November 11, 2015 By tuxninja

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