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hexophrenic

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  1. digininja - where did you get that you get the books when you challenge the exam?  I don't believe that is accurate.  The only way to get the books legally now is to take the class itself in some form (or pass the GSE and upon renewal 4 years later you can get the books from any certification you have at that point for a fee plus shipping).

  2. I think the whole "have a talk with your children" thing is a card a little over-played, especially (and I am not saying who does or doesn't - just speaking to generalities) by people who do not have children. With ISPs threatening to shut off internet due to "piracy" I think it warrants a much closer look at what is going on than just having a chat with your children. As Churchill said, "trust but verify."

    Windows Family Safety stinks. I have not been able to manage one of my computers for weeks because Live states it is not available, the time limits often get confused about what time they are supposed to shut off (both amount of screentime and curfew settings). I think one of the easiest ways to manage this is to simply use OpenDNS. They are free (cheap if you want more control) and if your kids are circumventing this (good on them, they might have a chance) then try harder.

  3. Sophos UTM - free for home use. Current version - 50ip limit (ipv4 and ipv6 on one device count as two IPs for license). Next version (beta currently available) - free for home use, unlimited IPs, hardware limited to 4cpus/6gb ram, no IP limits. Awesome functionality for the price, runs great in ESXi.

  4. I really don't know what more to say on this from my experience. My KALI updates are working fine right now, but I have not gone through the steps of removing them to re-add them or anything like that. My installs have been around for a while, so perhaps a rebuild would show the same thing. Have you checked on the KALI forums to see if others are having issues?

  5. GPG errors likely mean you need to download the keys for the repo before you can pull from them. The apt-add-repository command does this automatically. Otherwise, google for the process for adding new repos including downloading the gpg keys from the keyserver.

  6. You have to add the keys for the servers when you modify the repo list like this. The easiest was is to use apt-add-repository to add them. It is part of the python-software-properties package.

  7. Thanks for the response digip. We are behind NAT, but this range is not used by use. So it's definitely an external IP. The segment of traffic I posted was a mere drop in the bucket of the traffic that was flooded to the client's machine. (We're an ISP and saw a ton of traffic slam the client)

    Another tiny snippet:

    19:44:50.708965 IP 203.113.165.27.53 > 64.147.113.139.33526: 52313| 243/0/2 A 204.46.43.172, A 204.46.43.173, A 204.46.43.174, A 204.46.43.175, A 204.46.43.176, A 204.46.43.177, A 204.46.43.178, A 204.46.43.179, A 204.46.43.180, A 204.46.43.181, A 204.46.43.182, A 204.46.43.183, A 204.46.43.184, A 204.46.43.185, A 204.46.43.186, A 204.46.43.187, A 204.46.43.188, A 204.46.43.189, A 204.46.43.190, A 204.46.43.191, A 204.46.43.192, A 204.46.43.193, A 204.46.43.194, A 204.46.43.195, A 204.46.43.196, A 204.46.43.197, A 204.46.43.198, A 204.46.43.199, A 204.46.43.200, A 204.46.43.201, A 204.46.43.202, A 204.46.43.203, A 204.46.43.204, A 204.46.43.205, A 204.46.43.206, A 204.46.43.207, A 204.46.43.208, A 204.46.43.209,
    

    So is the 64.147.113.139 machine the actual DNS server? What's the meaning of the "243/0/2" ?

    243 records answers, 0 authoritative responses, 2 non-authoritative responses. This means that one small query returned a very large response, thus the amplification aspect.

  8. Why not just grab a cheap VPS and throw openvpn on it? That way you can do far more than just use it as a VPN and it will be around the same price ($5 a month-ish)

    You can be tied to a VPS account the same way you can be tied to a VPN account (billing, for most people), but using a VPS as a VPN only gains you anonymity from your ISP, not the far end, since they see your VPS public IP. Just something to keep in mind...if you tie it to a good proxy, though, things might be better, but then again, just use a VPN provider as a one stop shop.

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