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System administration

doggo – command-line DNS client

July 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

doggo is a flexible DNS client with encrypted lookup protocols, HTTP/3 support, configurable resolvers and script-friendly output.

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Load Balancing

HAProxy – high-performance load balancer and proxy server

November 14, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

HAProxy handles high-availability TCP and HTTP traffic with load balancing, health checks, access controls and memory-based caching.

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Passive OS Fingerprinting

PacketFence – network access control solution

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

PacketFence provides network access control with 802.1X authentication, captive portals, device registration and access enforcement.

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Remote Display

OpenSSH – remote login with the SSH protocol

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

OpenSSH provides secure remote login, command execution, SFTP transfers, key management and tunnelling for Linux systems and servers.

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HTTP

HTTPie – user-friendly command-line HTTP client

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

HTTPie simplifies API requests with readable syntax, formatted JSON, file uploads, authentication, persistent sessions and downloads.

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HTTP

aria2 – multi-protocol command-line download manager

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

aria2 accelerates downloads across HTTP, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink with segmented transfers, checksum checks and remote control.

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HTTP

Wget2 – successor to GNU Wget

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Wget2 downloads files and mirrors websites using parallel connections, HTTP/2, recursive crawling, link conversion and resumable transfers.

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HTTP

curl – command-line data transfer tool and library

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

curl transfers data across web, file and messaging protocols with authentication, proxies, parallel requests and libcurl integration.

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HTTP

curlie – HTTPie-style interface for curl

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

curlie combines curl’s transfer capabilities with HTTPie-inspired syntax, readable output, streaming responses and curl command previews.

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Web

Polipo – lightweight caching web proxy

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Web Apps

Polipo is a discontinued lightweight caching HTTP proxy offering pipelining, IPv6, partial-download caching and SOCKS integration.

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Benchmarking

netperf – networking benchmark software

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

netperf is a client-server benchmark for measuring TCP and UDP throughput, request-response performance, latency and CPU utilisation.

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Web Design

Apache HTTP Server – extensible web server

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Apache HTTP Server serves websites with virtual hosts, flexible modules, authentication, proxying and configurable HTTP caching.

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Server

Radius – network authentication and accounting server

September 16, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

GNU Radius provides network authentication and accounting with SQL backends, PAM, configurable policies and extensible request processing.

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Server

FreeRADIUS – high-performance RADIUS server

September 16, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

FreeRADIUS is a modular RADIUS server supporting 802.1X, EAP authentication, accounting, policy rules, SQL databases and proxying.

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HTTP

xh – fast and friendly command-line HTTP client

August 2, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

xh sends HTTP requests with concise syntax, JSON and form data, authentication, session support, downloads and curl command translation.

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Internet

Best Free and Open Source Software – Internet

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering web browsers, email, anti-spam, mailing list managers, Usenet, VoIP and more.

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Documentation

dnslookup – command-line DNS query utility

May 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dnslookup tests conventional and encrypted DNS resolvers with HTTP/3, DNSCrypt, DNS-over-QUIC, reverse lookups and custom endpoints.

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Documentation

drill – command-line DNS and DNSSEC diagnostic utility

May 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

drill is a command-line DNS diagnostic utility offering DNSSEC signature checks, delegation tracing, reverse lookups and query controls.

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Documentation

OpenRDAP – command-line registration data client

April 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

OpenRDAP queries domain, IP, autonomous system and entity registration records with IANA bootstrapping and flexible text or JSON output.

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Documentation

ipwhois – retrieve and parse IP registration data

April 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ipwhois retrieves and parses IPv4 and IPv6 registration records using RDAP and WHOIS, including ASN details, referrals and network ranges.

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