2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
2.5 Admins 198: SMB Pulse
Microsoft is tightening up SMB security in Windows which might break access to your old NAS, a Cogent root-server mysteriously goes out of sync without them spotting it, and protecting hard drives from electromagnetic pulses.
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Installing Windows 11 24H2 might mean binning that old NAS
A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why
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We were asked about protecting hard drives from electromagnetic pulses.
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