Tag: networking

Something's squatting on port 8080 and you need to know what. ss, netstat, and lsof one-liners to find the PID behind a port fast.

AV vs EDR, traditional antivirus signatures vs behavioral endpoint detection. What each catches, what it misses, and what you actually need.

Certificate pinning locks your app to a specific TLS cert so MITM attackers can't swap in a rogue CA, how it works and when to use it.

Bridge, host, overlay, macvlan, and none, every Docker network mode explained with real use cases from beginner to production.

Add load balancing and failover to your Docker setup using Swarm, nginx, HAProxy, and Keepalived, high availability without Kubernetes.

Access services on the host machine from inside a Docker container using host-gateway or host.docker.internal, no hardcoded IPs.

Automate a full WordPress stack deployment, Docker, nginx, and MySQL, using Ansible playbooks instead of clicking through wizards.

Cloudflare Tunnels expose local services to the internet without open ports, secure setup with zero-trust access controls.

Go beyond basic UFW rules, rate limiting, geo-blocking, application profiles, logging, and before.rules tricks for serious firewall hardening.

SSH tunnels forward ports over encrypted connections, local forwarding, remote forwarding, and dynamic SOCKS proxy explained.

socat wires TCP, UDP, Unix sockets, files, and serial ports together. Port forwarding, OpenSSL tunnels, traffic capture, this is netcat with superpowers.

Decode the postgresql:// connection string, host, port, database, SSL mode, and the gotchas that cause connection refused at deploy time.