Archive for November, 2008

L4DStats - A Statistics App for Left4Dead

November 28th, 2008 by Gareth Llewellyn

I as well as many others have been enjoying Valve’s new game Left4Dead and whilst I was enjoying the Match Making system and general carnage the SysAdmin in me was thinking “dedicated server….”.

After grabbing a few more achivements (Witch and Hunter headshots ftw) I set up a dedicated server for Left4Dead and let it run [...]

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Has Disconnecting McColo Really Resulted in a Drop in Spam?

November 14th, 2008 by Gareth Llewellyn

When I heard the news that McColo had been pulled I wondered if we’d actually see a drop in Hostile traffic and Spam.
Turns out that there has been a massive drop in Spam levels coming through some of the filters I have dotted around the place.

C&C or Spam Hosts?
I wrote a little script to see [...]

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How 1337 is Obama?

November 4th, 2008 by Gareth Llewellyn

So much so that he votes at 13:37!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7700298.stm

NAMOS LAN Native IPv6 - Complete

November 3rd, 2008 by Gareth Llewellyn

With the initial tests over it was time to actually move over to ‘real’ IPv6 addresses.
After applying for a tunnel from SixXS it was time to set it up. Unfortunately none of my JUNOS or Cisco IOS images have IPv6 support so rather than buying another 2600XM I decided to use the Windows Server 2008 [...]

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