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Apple Watch and IPSEC/ESP

Something I noticed when my Apple Watch was associated to the wrong SSID (and was placed on a vLAN different to that of its paired iPhone) was the repeated attempts it was making to set up an IPSEC connection to … Continue reading

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avahi-daemon and incrementing Apple device names

For a long time on my network I noticed my various Apple devices incrementing their hostname (specifically the name advertised with mDNS/mdns-sd – as appears in the ‘Sharing’ section of ‘System Preferences’). I lazily put this down to a poorly … Continue reading

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AppleTV 4K Airplay across subnets

After a protracted battle with mDNS across broadcast domains (which I have yet to satisfactorily solve) I was at a point where I could see my AppleTV on my iPhone as an AirPlay target. However when selecting the AppleTV in … Continue reading

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Using OpenSSL keys in SSH

If you’ve created OpenSSL certificates with private/public key pairs and want to add the public key to SSH’s authorized_keys file for authentication, do the following: # /tmp/ssl-to-ssh/a.out tmp.key user@host.com # chmod 600 CA/certs/First\ Last/First_Last-key.pem # openssl rsa -aes256 -in  CA/certs/First\ Last/First_Last-key.pem -out  … Continue reading

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