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Automatically clone zone from a bind master

My situation, ns1 and ns2, master and slave. On ns1 I’ve installed smbind to simply manage my zones.

Now I want that ns2 will be automatically updated with the new zones from ns1 but, unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find anything ready on internet.

At the end I wrote a simple script that simply connect […]

Renew a Certification Authority that is going to expiry

Esempio classico: il certificato di openvpn dopo 10 anni scade, il certificato originale era stato creato con easy-rsa

È possibile rinnovare il certificato della Certification Authority e del server in scadenza e far si che i client continuino a collegarsi. Nel caso di alcuni software (vedi openvpn), il client dispone anche di copia del certificato […]

Backup and restore Mikrotik MetaRouter Openwrt Image

On original metarouter: cd / echo “ ./tmp/* ./proc/* ./sys/*” > /tmp/exclude.list tar zcvf /tmp/newimage.tgz -X /tmp/exclude.list . On original Mikrotik: /metarouter export Start the new metarouter with the SAME original image when it is booted, login to it and copy the /tmp/newimage.tgz from the original one: scp original_metarouter:/tmp/newimage.tgz /tmp and restore it: cd / […]

Mikrotik – Load Balancer and Failover (and traffic prioritization)

Searching far and wide on the web looking for a solution to my problem (have a mikrotik router that do load balance and failover), I came to the conclusion that a complete solution doesn’t exist.

So I started taking all the scripts and docs found and putting them together…. The result is a working system […]

Check-MK Mikrotik Plugin for Voltage – Temperature – Memory

I just finished to write my first SNMP check for check_mk 🙂 These checks are for query mikrotik routerboard device and check status of voltage (power supply), temperature and memory. For memory I simly edit the hr_mem check, I don’t know why but mikrotik use hrOtherDisk instead of hrRamDisk for internal ram. I’ve also add […]

Raspberry Web Analog Data Logger

On this post I’ll explain you how to grab analog data from an 8-channel, 12 bit ADC. The ADC used is the Custard-PI 3 http://www.sf-innovations.co.uk/custard-pi-3.html . You can buy it directly from them on that page.

I use it to log value from different type of sensors. As you know ADC for raspberry can read […]

Tunnel IPIP between RouterOs and Linux

This is a small tutorial on how to establish an IPIP tunnel between a Linux Debian server and a Mikrotik RouterOs.

Linux Machine:

ip tunnel add tun0 mode ipip remote <remote_ip_address> local <local_ip_address> ip link set tun0 up ip addr add 192.168.200.1/24 dev tun0

Mikrotik RouterBoard:

/interface ipip add local-address=<local_address> remote-address=<remote_address> /ip address add address=192.168.200.2/24 […]

OpenVPN Linux Server – Router OS Client

Launch this commands:

CATOP=./personalCA

CAKEY=./cakey.pem

CAREQ=./careq.pem

CACERT=./cacert.pem

cd /etc/ssl

mkdir $CATOP

mkdir $CATOP/certs

mkdir $CATOP/crl

mkdir $CATOP/newcerts

mkdir $CATOP/private

echo “00” > $CATOP/serial

echo “00” > $CATOP/crlnumber

touch $CATOP/index.txt

export OPENSSL_CONF=/etc/ssl/essetigiCA.cnf

copy /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf to personalCA.cnf and edit OrganizationName, Country, State, ecc fields.

Then execute:

openssl req -new -keyout $CATOP/private/$CAKEY -out $CATOP/$CAREQ

write a complex passhprase […]

SheevaPlug Debian booting from internal Flash

If you previosuly installed Debian on your internal flash and for some reasons your u-boot environment f**k you can simply restore it with this:

setenv mtdpartitions mtdparts=nand_mtd:0xa0000@0x0(u-boot),0x400000@0x100000(uImage),0x1fb00000@0x500000(rootfs)

setenv bootargs_root ubi.mtd=2 root=ubi0:rootfs rootfstype=ubifs

setenv bootargs_console console=ttyS0,115200

setenv bootcmd_nand ‘nand read.e 0x00800000 0x00100000 0x00400000’

setenv bootcmd ‘setenv bootargs $(bootargs_console) $(mtdpartitions) $(bootargs_root); run bootcmd_nand; bootm 0x00800000’

saveenv

This […]