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Experienced problems and bugs

X509v3 Authority Key Identifier pains (authorityKeyIdentifier)

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“X509v3 Authority Key Identifier” or “authorityKeyIdentifier” is an X509v3 extension that’s added to X509 certificates and identifies the CA that signed the Certificate. I suppose that this speeds up the certificate validation process by eliminating multiple checks. Short version Edit openssl.cnf and make sure that authorityKeyIdentifier does not include “issuer” Long version There’s an issue …

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IPsec, Racoon, setkey, Linux, Mikrotik, tunnel, transport and everything

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It took me more than 6 months in order to sort all issues, so here are the experiences. Most of the trouble was because I didn’t knew or I didn’t had things clear in my mind. I wanted to have IPsec communication between a bunch of servers and a home network. I believe that this …

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pyzor problem after debian squeeze upgrade

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After upgrading some servers to Debian squeeze, the following log was filling the logs: The problem was caused by wrong pyzor servers. Unfortunately, pyzor keeps a servers list in each home directory in file ~/.pyzor/servers. This is what this file used to have: This file is created automatically (with a proper value) so it is …

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And this month’s medal of stup^H^H^H^Hcleverness goes to…

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Internet Explorer for this. Really, if MS was not MS but a company that was payed to write applications, making this information public should be enough reason not to hire them. Let me rephrase the explanation: “If you give me a letter and say that this letter is only handed once, I will drop it …

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VMWare Server 2 RC2 fails to boot VMs

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For a couple of days now, VMWare Server 2 RC2 was refusing to start virtual machines. It kept waiting at 95%. It turns out that VMWare cannot boot virtual machines (or upgrade them) when kernel modules kvm_intel, kvm etc are loaded. Here is the error message from hostd.log: Question info: The virtualization capability of your …

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Trouble uploading files to wordpress

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I had problems uploading files to wordpress hosted at the local machine. Conditions are: Firefox 3.0 Flash 9.0 Local squid proxy 2.7.STABLE3 Firefox setup for using local proxy except from accessing local machine. This makes no difference at all. Environment variable http_proxy set to http://127.0.0.1:8080/ The result of trying to upload images to wordpress was …

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