Library items tagged: configuration

Background There is a great deal of literature about the operation of authoritative nameservers, but not so much about the resolver function.This note is for system and network managers or administrators in Janet organisations (particularly smaller organisations with relatively simple networks) and is intended to give them confidence that they have correctly configured this straighforward but critical part of the DNS in their own networks.

A lot of attention has been paid to the implementation of remote working environments for the home and providing connectivity solutions to remote locations. Consumer Linksys routers make an ideal platform to extend your organisational network to a remote location, even providing a central wireless SSID for users. This set of instructions will demonstrate the configuration of the Linksys router (Linksys WRT54G) with OpenWRT as a hardware IPSec endpoint.

General-purpose computer systems as supplied are not designed to be connected to hostile networks. The Internet outside the organisation should certainly be regarded as hostile and for some purposes parts of the internal organisation should also be viewed in this light. This means that many of the computers in the organisation need additional configuration and maintenance to reduce the likelihood of them falling victim to an attack across the network.

Updated 1/11/2021 This page contains archive material only - the SU1X tool was combined into CAT and should no longer be seen as a standalone solution.