Hyperledger Fabric is a consortium blockchain system. It’s performance is relatively good and its modular architecture enables it to be usable in many scenarios. Hyperledger Fabric itself has rich documents and samples of test networks. For beginners, deploying a new network for trying and testing still consumes quite some time. In this post, we will…
It seems Thunderbird sends out my private/lan IP to the SMTP server. For example, in an Email sent out by Thunderbird, the header contains Received: from [192.168.1.2] (example.com [1.2.3.4]) by mail.example.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 92CD297DEA; It is fine that the SMTP server records the public IP (1.2.3.4) as it is what it sees. But…
Common DNS queries like ping will first get the IP of a hostname if it exists in /etc/hosts. How to find the hostname of an IP using /etc/hosts if it has the mapping on Linux? Multiple tools on Linux can do the “reverse” checking using /etc/hosts file. For example, if we have a line 192.0.2.1…
In Zimbra server, how to set Zimbra web service’s hostname and port? Set Zimbra Web service’s host and port (to mail.domain.com:80 as an example) for a mail domain domain.com: zmprov md domain.com zimbraPublicServiceHostname mail.domain.com zmprov md domain.com zimbraPublicServicePort 80 Reference: https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/When_using_a_proxy,_the_’change_password’_box_doesn’t_load
In C, how to get the hostname of the node? In C, you may use the gethostname function. #include <unistd.h> int gethostname(char *name, size_t namelen); The gethostname() function shall return the standard host name for the current machine. The namelen argument shall specify the size of the array pointed to by the name argument. The…
In C++, how to get the hostname of the node? In C++, the C way works too. However, with Boost, you can use the boost::asio::ip::host_name() function to get the hostname as a std::string: namespace boost { namespace asio { namespace ip { /// Get the current host name. BOOST_ASIO_DECL std::string host_name(); … More at http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_63_0/boost/asio/ip/host_name.hpp…
In Go lang, how to get the hostname of the node? In Go, you can use the os.Hostname() function to get the hostname of the node. func Hostname() (name string, err error) Hostname returns the host name reported by the kernel. One example is as follows. The main.go source code: package main import ( “fmt”…
Getting the hostname of the node running a program can be useful in various scenarios, such as creating logs with the hostname, identifying which node a script is running on, or configuring a distributed system with different nodes. In Bash, there are several ways to retrieve the hostname of the machine, as mentioned in the…
In Python, how to get the hostname of the node? In Python, you can get the hostname by the socket.gethostname() library function in the socket module: import socket hostname = socket.gethostname() Example: $ python Python 2.7.5 (default, Nov 6 2016, 00:28:07) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-11)] on linux2 Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license”…
In Python, how to get hostname as the command hostname does on Linux? In Python, you can get the hostname by the socket.gethostname() library function in the socket module: import socket hostname = socket.gethostname() Reference: https://www.systutorials.com/dtivl/20/how-to-get-the-hostname-of-the-node?show=34#a34
The command using ‘;’ after ‘&’ like ssh host1 hostname &; ssh host2 hostname & Leads to error like bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;’ Why does ; after & lead to unexpected token error in bash on Linux? And what’s the solution? The fix The quick fix is to change your command to…
Managing a cluster of servers, I would like to notified when a server is started. How to make the Linux servers email me or other admins automatically after they are started? I did this by adding a crontab entry on each servers like @reboot date | mailx -S smtp=smtp://smtp.example.com -s “`hostname` started” -r zma@example.com zma@example.com…
How to change the hostname on Linux Mint? The hostname (e.g. mypc or mypc.example.com) can be changed by putting the hostname in one line in the file /etc/hostname on Linux Mint.
Are there some good free CDNs on the Web? There are some free CDNs in the Web. Cloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com CloudFlare protects and accelerates any website online. Once your website is a part of the CloudFlare community, its web traffic is routed through our intelligent global network. We automatically optimize the delivery of your web pages…
How to set the global user name and user email for git? We may be asked to set our global user name and user email if it is the first time that we use git on a machine: Your name and email address were configured automatically based on your username and hostname. Please check that…
People are sometimes given access to Linux/Unix and asked to change their initial passwords. But for beginners, changing a Linux/Unix password is not an easy task, especially when there is only SSH log on allowed to the Linux/Unix server. This post introduces how to change password of user USER on host HOST remotely using SSH….
It is common to execute commands on many nodes/hosts via SSH for managing a cluster of Linux servers. On Linux, there are many choices for this task. Generally, to run commands on many nodes, there are two modes: serial mode and parallel mode. In serial mode, the command is executed on the node one by…
You may be aware of the GitHub’s largest DDoS attack in history on Mar. 27, 2015 (some context, technical details, and discussions): We've been under continuous DDoS attack for 24+ hours. The attack is evolving, and we're all hands on deck mitigating. — GitHub Status (@githubstatus) March 27, 2015 One important technique when facing this…
Having to go the the server room to reset servers is the most headache thing for admins managing a cluster of Linux servers in a remote site. Either you can ping the server but can not ssh to it, or you even can not ping it. There are various reasons that may cause a Linux…
If your website uses a self-signed certificates, Chrome will show a warning every time and you need clicks to continue. In this post, I will introduce how to make Chrome accept self-signed certificates for sites on Linux. This post is made short on purpose and you need to search the Web and learn if you…