Nat 1:1 static configuration or “Server Mapping” in Huawei have a strange behavior on the WEB GUI. Based on USG 6300 series with V500R001C60SPC500 firmware, when you configure bidirectional NAT it behaves like a SOURCE NAT. Solution: There are platforms, such as new generation firewalls that have a very powerful web management portal. But in general in network environments, especially …
COVID-19 – Problems for signed Internet DNS root zones
Big troubles for the signed Internet DNS root zone to the DNS root servers. For just over 10 years now, every three months, a diverse group of “Trusted Community Representatives” [1] get together in one of two data centres in the USA and follow an agreed script to sign a batch of Key Signing Requests (KSRs) provided by Verisign that, …
COVID-19 – CERT-PA ALERT!
CERT-PA has detected in recent days attacks targeting some national hospital companies. Blackhole and survey suspect networks! .glitchlist.com
Arista – slow ssh login
A common issue is when accessing a switch via SSH it takes a long time for the user to login and then after that the connection flows smoothly. This is generally due to the fact that SSH does a reverse DNS lookup for the remote device and the DNS query times out. Another common issue is that the management interface is …
VoIP phones port configuration
It is sometimes possible to meet a multi-vendor and multi-client environment. For VoIP networks is not good but happen. A Network Admin can automate switch configuration in order to not provide the configuration of each individual phone and allow the voip team to install the devices by themselves. In this example we have an HP A5130 switch a CISCO IP …