An American Epitaph
"I'll vote for the republican nominee..."…
TightVNC File Association Fix
Fixing TightVNC file association in windows is not as straightforward as choosing "always use TightVNC Viewer to open .vnc files" Using this method to restore TightVNC file association results in the following error when attempting to open VNC files: Connection parameters [host, port, socket, gates] is empty. To…
ansible proxy jump
Ansible can proxy through a jump host / bastion host to connect to systems, but there's something to watch out for that can cause a rather vague connection failure of failed to connect to host via ssh citing kex_exchange_identification Connection closed by remote host and Connection closed…
ansible arping
Building on previous work for subnet scanning with ansible, I've written a small playbook to identify IP conflicts within a remote network using ansible. The inventory for the playbook can be any host that has the arping command, which includes any linux machine, or edgemax router. The beauty…
AWK IPTables
Using ansible with iptables is a bit clunky, particularly with rule ordering and duplication. The ansible iptables module does not check for existing rules before plopping new ones in, and older systems (without -C) can be tricky to check for existence of rules. This post explores using ansible to update…