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    2 months ago

    The person isn’t talking about automating being difficult for a hosted website. They’re talking about a third party system that doesn’t give you an easy way to automate, just a web gui for uploading a cert. For example, our WAP interface or our on-premise ERP don’t offer a way to automate. Sure, we could probably create code to automate it and run the risk it breaks after a vendor update. It’s easier to pay for a 12 month cert and do it manually.








  • As a guy responsible for a 1,000 employee O365 tenant, I’ve been watching this with concern.

    I don’t think I’m a target of state actors. I also don’t have any E5 licenses.

    I’m disturbed at the opaqueness of MS’ response. From what they have explained, it sounds like the bad actors could self-sign a valid token to access cloud resources. That’s obviously a huge concern. It also sounds like the bad actors only accessed Exchange Online resources. My understanding is they could have done more, if they had a valid token. I feel like the fact that they didn’t means something’s not yet public.

    I’m very disturbed by the fact that it sounds like I’d have no way to know this sort of breach was even occurring.

    Compared to decades ago, I have a generally positive view of MS and security. It bothers me that this breach was a month in before the US government notified MS of it. It also bothers me that MS hasn’t been terribly forthcoming about what happened. Likely, there’s no need to mention I’m bothered that I’m so deep into the O365 environment that I can’t pull out.


  • Nice job. Packet loss will definitely cause these issues. Now, you just need to find the source of the packet loss.

    In your situation, I’d first try to figure out if it is ISP/Internet before looking inside either network. I wouldn’t expect it to be internal at these speeds. Though, did you get CPU/RAM readings on the network equipment during these tests? Maxing out either can result in packet loss.

    I’d start with two pairs of packet captures when the issue happened: endpoint to endpoint and edge router to edge router. Figure out if the packet loss is only happening in one direction or not. That is, are all the UK packets reaching DE but not all the DE making it back? You should clearly be able to narrow into a TCP conversation with dropped packets. Dropped packets aren’t ones that a system never sent, they’re ones that a system never received. Find some of those and start figuring out where the drop happened.



  • If the bandwidth numbers you’ve described are accurate, I’d start looking at CPU and RAM usage on the network device. The Fortigates are going to be doing extra work to handle the VPN. I wouldn’t expect an IPSEC VPN on a Fortigate to top out at 10mbps, but if it’s doing a lot of other work, it’s possible. ACL’s on the Cisco devices? You run the potential of CPU/RAM exhaustion on those. Hopefully, you have remote monitoring on all network devices and you can just look at the history when these transfers are happening.

    If nothing obvious there, then I’d try packet captures when this is happening, perhaps to start on the system doing the ssh and on one or two others experiencing issues. What are you seeing? Evidence of dropped packets? High latency? If dropped packets, start capturing the same traffic on the network devices it’s flowing through.





  • Upvotes and downvotes.

    Right now, I can browse by New on my subscribed communities and see every post since the last time I did that.

    I can view or re-view posts and read every response. If the responses are legion, I can play with hot/top and get the meat of the discussion.

    Did you notice that last sentence? On the few posts where there are too many responses to view all, I’ll try to get at those that are relevant.

    If the Lemmy community grows large enough, I’ll need to do the same for posts. I will no longer be able to regularly view by new and have time to see everything.

    So, I’ll need to rely on some sorting method to make certain I see relevant stuff.

    Someone with millions of bots that never post have millions of upvotes and downvotes to influence the score used by the sorting algorithm that I’ll use to decide what to read.








  • Yep. I’ve hosted my own mail server since the early oughts. One additional hurdle I’d add to you list is rDNS. If you can’t get that set up, you’ll have a hard time reaching many mail servers. Besides port blocking, that’s one of the many reason it’s a non-starter on consumer ISP.

    I actually started on a static ISDN line when rDNS wasn’t an issue for running a mail server. Moved to business class dsl, and Ameritech actually delegated rDNS to me for my /29. When I moved to Comcast business, they wouldn’t delegate the rDNS for the IPv4. They did create rDNS entries for me, and they did delegate the rDNS for the IPv6 block. Though the way they deal with the /56 IPv6 block means only the first /64 is useable for rDNS.

    But, everything you list has been things I’ve needed to deal with over the years.