Author Archives: Kaven Gagnon

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About Kaven Gagnon

System & Network Architect

Active Directory : You do not have sufficient privileges to delete Organizational Unit

Working in Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) trying to delete an Organizational Unit (OU), you get the following error : Active Directory Domain Services You do not have sufficient privileges to delete < Organizational Unit >, or this object is protected from accidental deletetion. By default, you need to uncheck the box “Protect object… Read More »

Web : Prevent image hot linking to your site

This article is about stopping theses sites who hot link your images, steal them and your bandwidth! I assume you are running Apache as Web server and have some basic knowledge of httpd.conf, htaccess and rewrite rules. You have two choice, either put the rules directly inside your httpd.conf vhost or inside an Apache configuration… Read More »

Bind : Unexpected RCODE (REFUSED) resolving ‘xx.xx.xx.xx.in-addr.arpa/PTR/IN’

Experiencing this error in Bind logs? named[xxxxxx]: unexpected RCODE (REFUSED) resolving ‘xx.xx.xx.xx.in-addr.arpa/PTR/IN’: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx#53 This is probably because you have a forwarder in your named.conf that refuse your requests. Simply look at the end of the previous line : “xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx#53” and search this address in your named configuration file – it should be located inside the… Read More »

Bind : Transfer of ‘domain.tld’ from xx.xx.xx.xx#53 failed receiving responses permission denied

I recently notice this error on a master/slave Bind (named) DNS server setup (this error actually happened on slaves servers) : transfer of ‘domain.tld/IN’ from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx#53: failed while receiving responses: permission denied First, make sure the “allow-transfer” directive is properly set on the primary master server : allow-transfer { xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx; }; This is probably the… Read More »

Linux : SuSE repository links for YaST

There is some useful repositories for SuSE Linux. Just add the version of the distribution you are using at the end of the links before adding them to YaST. UnixHeads Packman : http://packman.inode.at/suse/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/packman/suse/ VideoLAN Client : http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/ Nvidia : ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/