PXEBoot (X86+EFI)

Any OS can support PXE/EFI boot possibilities to other systems booting. This post will focus on creating a X86/EFI boot environment using Debian for booting various other systems. The post will primarily focus on booting other Linux environments, there will…

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Pihole / DNSmasq

Pi-hole is a Linux network-level advertisement and Internet tracker blocking application which acts as a DNS sinkhole and optionally a DHCP server, intended for use on a private network. It is designed for low-power embedded devices with network capability, such as the Raspberry Pi, but can be installed on almost…

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Nft-Blackhole

If you need on your server additional blackholing/blacklisting scripts to automatically update your Nftables firewall to exclude countries or lists, use this software. Ideal. See:

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Debian 11: rkhunter

rkhunter (Rootkit Hunter) is a Unix-based tool that scans for rootkits, backdoors and possible local exploits. It does this by comparing SHA-1 hashes of important files with known good ones in online databases, searching for default directories (of rootkits), wrong…

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Debian 11: nftables

nftables replaces the popular {ip,ip6,arp,eb}tables. This software provides a new in-kernel packet classification framework that is based on a network-specific Virtual Machine (VM) and a new nft userspace command line tool. nftables reuses the existing Netfilter subsystems such as the…

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