May 052011
 

I am sure many people have heard that verizon has asked google to remove tethering applications from their App Store.

Luckily I already had it installed but in case you don’t you can get it from here android-wifi-tether

I am running 2.0.7

In linux, you need to make sure you have this in the kernel config:

Device Drivers --->
  [*] Network device support --->
    USB Network Adapters --->
      [*] Multi-purpose USB Networking Framework
        <*> CDC Ethernet support
        <*> CDC EEM support
        <*> Simple USB Network Links (CDC Ethernet subset)
          [*] Embedded ARM Linux links
  [*] USB Support --->
    <*> USB Modem (CDC ACM) support
    <*> USB Wireless Device Management support

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Apr 282011
 

So, sometimes I write scripts to be a quick way to monitor or audit other systems.  The following script was written as a way to quickly audit a list of domain names, i.e. from a list of 1 domain per line.  Initially it was used to audit a list of subdomains from a nettica account to see if the name still resolved and if so, determine if the server was running ssh with a valid key.  I have realized the script has a lot of uses, as a way to validate hosts are up and also validate ssh is running.  You could also replace the “ls” command in order to monitor other services on a server or even top or similar.  So, this script could start as a foundation and easily expanded upon.

First, you need a text file containing 1 domain name per line, like this:

domain1.com
domain2.com
domain3.com
sub.domain4.com

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