BOGON Filtering, Update It
by Ryan M. on Mar.31, 2009, under Development Blog
One of the features used by APF to prevent address spoofing is that it filters reserved IP address space, also known as BOGON filtering. This is an otherwise very reliable method to keep out random unallocated spoofed addresses from injecting traffic towards your server, assuming of course the list is updated regularly.
We decided a few [...]
“oops” Wrong Server!
by Ryan M. on Mar.31, 2009, under My Blog
So this past weekend, I did the unthinkable, I accidentally recycled the wrong dedicated server at work. Usually, this is not much of an issue (not that I make a habit of it) with the continuous data protection we have implemented at the data center (cdp r1soft) except that the backup server this particular client [...]
New Site, At Last!
by Ryan M. on Mar.31, 2009, under Development Blog
It has been on my plate for a long time now to redo the R-fx Networks site, although this process began some years ago with a few incarnations of new sites developing behind the scenes, none ever made it into production. In the end I drew the conclusion that sometimes simpler is better, so here [...]
