I had to briefly fly to Europe for some purpose so had to get my Schengen Visa done. The process is not as straight forward as I had hoped for it to be and information is often scarce on the internet. I will be posting all resources that helped me What Visa to apply for?… Read More »
On my usual Goa to Delhi trips I decided to try out Rajdhani first class instead of the usual flight option. I had a spare sunday at my disposal and was tired of flying so decided to try the best that the Indian Railways had to offer. I booked a single normal first-class(1AC) ticket from… Read More »
Before proceeding I want to make it absolutely clear that these are my personal views only and nothing to do with my employer or their views. National Internet Exchange of India(NIXI) is an internet exchange in India, infact one of the few in the country and is fully government owned non-profit entity initially established to… Read More »
I had multiple networks scattered around different places and needed a way to link all of them together. They were as follows: Work related VPNs. There were multiple VPNs to access different parts of the internal networks. Handling multiple VPN files was very cumbersome. For convinience let’s assume we have a single network here –… Read More »
Everyone’s favorite SSL certificate authority Let’s Encrypt recently announced support for wildcard SSL certificates on their forum here using the ACMEv2 API. Wildcard SSL certificates still cost as much as $150-300/yr on the market. Getting them for free is a huge bonus. Install Certbot Grab the Certbot tool for issuing Let’s Encrypt signed SSL certificates.… Read More »
One of the reasons why people run BGP is when reliability is of utmost importance and sessions terminating abruptly can simply be not afforded, especially in cases like VOIP. However this is an expensive proposition both cost and skill wise. There may be a middle ground between this and simple failover with multiple uplinks. That… Read More »
As many of those close to me know, I had a bad disc prolapse in my lower back about 1.5 years back. The situation was so bad that I couldn’t walk for a few months, with pain shooting down to my legs. After that I was very out of shape, with a lot of weight… Read More »
Whether you may be a large web host, or a small ISP serving a neighborhood; DDOS attacks in India can be extremely problematic and hard hitting. Here are some of the ways you can ensure that you aren’t affected by a lot. All of these solutions assume that you are running BGP. Preparing for an… Read More »
I recently read Srijit Banerjee’s excellent article, which brought to light ugly things done by service providers to fool their customers who have grown accustomed to the ping google.com command to judge the quality of the internet. While he has strayed away from how this is done, I feel that educating people on how this… Read More »
So the past few weeks have been quite hectic for me. I managed to get my Mikrotik MTCNA cert, had a nice vacation in Delhi and my friend’s place at Rohtak, took up a new job in the national capital and am typing this from there. 😉 The MTCNA certification was quite fun and in… Read More »