Testing SMTPS from Command Line (with Authentication)

Just like the testing of SMTP using Telnet, you can also perform the same steps if the target server is using TLS, however because telnet won’t do the job here, you can use OpenSSL instead. Here’s a simple example. Firstly get your Username and Password in Base64 format. You’ll get the Base64 encoded strings outputted […]

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More Adventures in Ansible – Bind Example

Following on from a previous article https://geekmungus.co.uk/?p=4510 we now investigate some more into using Ansible for configuration management and installations. As something we can use as an example, we’re going to setup a simple Bind DNS server, which we can use to explore how to manage the installation of Bind and it’s configuration within Ansible. […]

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