what did you learn today? (part 2)
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According to the Ricoh/Lanier dealer one of my customers uses, their printers corrupting scan-to-SMB is just a thing and the fix is to switch from using SMB to FTP.
sigh
The Ricoh firmware update tool is free, give that a go if you haven't.
The Ricoh firmware update tool is free, give that a go if you haven't.
Yeah, I'm waiting for them to finish up tonight and I'll run it. I think it's on the most recent
Lawfirms and scanning... Because Lawfirms and printing had to find a way to get more irritating.
Lawfirms and scanning... Because Lawfirms and printing had to find a way to get more irritating.
We use papercut on all of our Ricoh devices, most people use PC integrated scanning but we have a few power groups that know how to drop down into the Ricoh native app. I don't think we've done SMB scanning in forever though, it's always been email delivery. (Papercut can drop stuff into some shared folders)
Heh, our old voicemail server (merlin legend, I think?) was a 386 and I believe a 40 MB HD. This was for maybe 50 to 100 users.
Not sure if I can sell the firm on it, but I'll give it a shot for sure. The most annoying part is that these are mostly documents they could easily download from the state's e-filing portal or CM/ECF or PACER.
I've used DNS Checker in the past when we found a phishing attempt was made on our domain using a similar one. I use that to check every once and a while to make sure that domain is still totally offline.Is it possible to pull the zone file of a domain publicly?
Found a domain whose DNS is set up on an account that is long forgotten.I want to move it into are usual DNS with the other domains, but it seems like typical DNS import features can only look up commonly used CNAME names. There are likely other CNAME records that need to be pulled before I can switch the nameservers.
<shudder> The most obtuse, irritating, and dysfunctional "control panels" I deal with occasionally are those on our Ricoh printers. Unfortunately, our megacorp is all-in 100% with HP and Ricoh, inflicting misery and pain to tens of thousands of employees daily.
The HP drivers need to be blown away and reinstalled if a printer is set with a static IP because trying to change the printer port post-install never seems to work right. And the less is said about "HP Smart" print drivers, the better.
Ricoh Printers are a special brand of Hell for management where someone decided to beat the "worst way to manage" mantra.
There have been several times where I've set an IPv4 address in the driver and Windows or whatever replaces that perfectly fine IP address with some WSD Port nonsense. Drives me up a wall.
We're 100% Ricoh and HP. We use the Ricoh universal and the HP universal driver, and only have like 2.5 models - MP(C)6503's and LaserJet Flow MFP E52645.
Neither have driver issues and pretty much just work. The Ricoh's are all new enough to have SOP (Android) and honestly are the least bad of any MFD we've used over the years.
But hey, what do I know about printing
Neither have driver issues and pretty much just work. The Ricoh's are all new enough to have SOP (Android) and honestly are the least bad of any MFD we've used over the years.
But hey, what do I know about printing
This is kinda a lateral approach, but you're running the services that domain points to, right? Given that, you should be able to get most of the important names in the zone from service logs on the back-end. Besides web request URLs, there's also SNI in TLS initiation, HTTP referrer, names appearing in forwarded email headers, and so forth. If any of those is a CNAME, you can then look it up to see what it's configured to alias.Is it possible to pull the zone file of a domain publicly?
Found a domain whose DNS is set up on an account that is long forgotten.
The unfortunate case would be if there are aliases of subsidiary names in that domain to external providers. For that sort of thing, you'd probably have to go trawling through links in the sites for anything that has non-relative URLs, with varying degrees of effort involved.
it is not. Unless you try a zone transfer and it works, or you're actually an admin of the DNS zone (or a server it lives on).Is it possible to pull the zone file of a domain publicly?
Found a domain whose DNS is set up on an account that is long forgotten.
You can try playing around with dig in linux, but I don't think you can find cnames that way. Your best bet is to contact the host and convince them to share the info, or figure out what email address it was registered to and take that over.Is it possible to pull the zone file of a domain publicly?
Found a domain whose DNS is set up on an account that is long forgotten.
Well apparently it's on the most recent firmware, so FTP it is. Sigh.
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I did the thing! And the thing went!
I have a parts-built server running an SIEM, and the RAID5 is down a disk; since it's running Centos7, I figured I would start proving out a complete pave-over rebuild on Ubuntu. I had been running a backup script pulled from various posts on their support forum, but actually going through the complete restoration procedure showed it was either 1: not getting all the files or 2: storing them in a manner that made retrieving them tedious and error-prone. So I reworked the script, fired up a VM, installed the platform, ran the restoration script against my backup, and all my agents came up in the dashboard. So nice knowing I can actually schedule a fix instead of reacting to something not working, for a change.
I have a parts-built server running an SIEM, and the RAID5 is down a disk; since it's running Centos7, I figured I would start proving out a complete pave-over rebuild on Ubuntu. I had been running a backup script pulled from various posts on their support forum, but actually going through the complete restoration procedure showed it was either 1: not getting all the files or 2: storing them in a manner that made retrieving them tedious and error-prone. So I reworked the script, fired up a VM, installed the platform, ran the restoration script against my backup, and all my agents came up in the dashboard. So nice knowing I can actually schedule a fix instead of reacting to something not working, for a change.
TIL you can login to the VAMI as administrator@vsphere.local and reset the root password. Also that orphaned folders can come back and haunt you if your trying to break a stretched cluster to decommission some of the nodes. This is all with 6.7 but soon to be v8.
That's actually only semi-recent (somewhere in one of the 6.7 updates I recall)
Have any of you tried any of those ADC-as-a-service outfits like Total Uptime?
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I never move us to a new version of vSphere until u3 is released. I don't think I'd want to keep running 6.7 these days, but I can understand the sentiment as to why someone would.
With some of the pricing coming out of those clowns, I've got customers that can't afford to go any higher than they are now.
Right as we were originally upgrading to 7 there was a nasty CBT bug that would lose data if you expanded a disk while the VM was running. Definitely waited on that one.
This is our last 6.7 Cluster. We had purchased the licensing pre-merger shenanigans. Most likely in 3-5 years when we replace it next it won't be vxrail/vmware.
Looks like it's not going to be a good day for anyone using CrowdStrike. Seems like anything with it installed is stuck in a BSOD boot loop. This should be fun...
I've heard horror stories here in AU from companies running CrowdStrike. It's all down. Every server. Every end-user PC. One company I deal with has thousands of endpoints, and most of the IT staff work from home on Fridays. They can't even access their machines to coordinate a response.
It's BSOD boot loops all round.
It looks like the workaround is going to involve booting into safe mode and manually removing the CrowdStrike files. On every machine. This will particularly be "fun" when the company has a remotely-distributed workforce, and where all machines are running BitLocker.
EDIT. It's huge:
Live: Global IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world
There are reports of IT outages affecting major institutions in Australia and internationally.
www.abc.net.au
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Yep, my employer here in Sweden is affected as well. I can't use the VPN-service to work from home. This will be a clusterfuck.
Where the machines are BitLocker protected, it's probably going to require hands-on time with every single machine. Some companies will need to deal with tens of thousands of geographically-distributed users.
But the immediate challenge for many companies is getting back in to the system to access the BitLocker keys to begin with.
Well in our case it only affects (as far as I know) some of our servers that are managed by another company. That company apparently had clowdstrike installed on those servers. So from business-perspective we seem to do fine at the moment.
It's just that we the workers can't inspect the system from a distance at the moment.