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SSH Tunnel For VNC

Recent problem where I needed to VNC to a host but the host was not directly routable. So I needed to send my traffic to a routable host and then tunnel it over to the final target host. SSH did the trick here:

Where “rhost” is the intermediate server and “host” is the final target server.

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Turn off open_basedir on Plesk site.

Here’s a quick bit of apache config that can be placed in the conf/vhost.conf file of a Plesk site to turn off the open_basedir restrictions:

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Activating vhost.conf in Plesk

I can never remember this command! When you want to add a vhost.conf file to a Plesk managed website, the following command needs to be run to force Plesk to add an include statement for the vhost.conf file:

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DNS Testing Resouces

Couple of handly links for DNS testing:

Squish DNS Checker – full traversal testing
http://www.squish.net/dnscheck/

DNS Testing Tools
http://www.dnsstuff.com
http://www.dnsreport.com

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Disable recursive name resolution

For public DNS servers it is often desirable to disable recursive name resolution. This can be accomplished by adding:

to the “options” section of the /etc/named.conf file.

Alternately you might want to only allow recursion for a limited range of addresses. This can be accomplished by instead adding a line like this:

to the “options” section of the /etc/named.conf file.

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