09 Apr
What do you do if you want to look for combinations of word strings in Gigabytes of IIS log files but don’t want to spend any money?
You download a program called Strings.
This is a SysInternals program now owned by Microsoft that will search through text files for word strings and kick them out to […]
Posted in Hosting, Software, Systems by: chris.super
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09 May
I ran across a pretty sweet article on how to access most blocked websites from places that use website filtering software.
Quick Breakdown:
-Use a website anoymizer
-Access the Website by IP instead of URL
-Use a service like tinyurl.com
-Use Google Mobile Search
-Search for Page in Google then go to the cached copy
-Use Google language tools service to […]
Posted in Security, Systems by: chris.super
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22 Mar
We have been digging into some of our downloads at work lately and have seen a ton of Error 416 - Requested Range not satisfiable in the logs. I had never see the 416 error before and since there were so many of these in the logs I become alarmed.
Official Definition is: The server returns […]
Posted in General, Networking, Software, Systems by: chris.super
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24 Aug
Well today was pretty much the same thing as yesterday except things seemed to stabilize out around 2:00pm today instead of 5:00pm like normally. We setup more external website monitoring to see the effect this issue was having on our customer experience. We haven’t heard anything back from Microsoft yet but should today. We […]
Posted in Cisco, General, Networking, Software, Systems, load balancing by: chris.super
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22 Aug
We have running into a problem lately at the company I work for where there is a problem, a big one at that, that no-one can seem to find the cause. What do you do when you have a random chain effect problem? We have numerous web servers that also running applications on the backend […]
Posted in General, Networking, Security, Systems, load balancing by: chris.super
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21 Jul
Here is a nice little config extra for your Cisco Content Switch Module or CSM. Basically what this will give you is whatever partial URL you put in the match statement, when sent to your vserver will be redirected to whatever URL you put in the webhost relocation statement. In the match statement do not […]
Posted in Cisco, Networking, load balancing by: chris.super
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19 Jul
Sometimes it is quite hard to find info on the Cisco CSM Load balancer module so as I find info I try to post here for others.
Latest thing I was looking into was persistent rebalance. I new it was a good thing and it is enable by default but I am not a default kind […]
Posted in Cisco, load balancing by: chris.super
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