Monthly Archives: September 2013

Stop Bind from performing forward lookups using IPv6

You may get logs similar to the following: Sep 17 16:15:07 nsserver named[21089]: network unreachable resolving ‘ns2.vistaprint.com/A/IN’: 2001:503:a83e::2:30#53 You can specify OPTIONS=’-4′ in /etc/sysconfig/named to tell named not to use IPv6 or disable IPv6 completely on your machine. You can … Continue reading

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Useful PowerCLI scripts

—Find VMs with snapshots Connect-VIServer vcenter Get-VM | Get-Snapshot | Select Created, VM —Find VMs with mounted ISO Get-VM | FT Name, @{Label="ISO file"; Expression = { ($_ | Get-CDDrive).ISOPath }} —Get Datastores and Used Storage for VMs within Cluster … Continue reading

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Useful Linux Commands

In order to add additional repositories on your Centos you have to run: rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm This command for example will add the EPEL repository. You can find additional repositories on http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories ——————————————————————————————- Searching for packages with yum: yum list … Continue reading

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