Good News Everyone.  I have my Cisco router working with my ADSL2+ connection. Well my Netgear router finally gave up the ghost… no smoke, just a few blown capacitors.  It has had a good life, it was originally bought as an ADSL1 router and firmware flashed to be ADSL2+ capable.  Well this forced me to [...]

Good News Everyone. My mail server is working. It did take an uninstall and a reinstall but I got there. The good news is that I am getting quicker at installing and configuring the Zimbra Software. I didn’t actually find the cause of the original issue, but after the reinstall it has all worked out [...]

So close yet so far,  I have installed Zimbra on a server at home to take care of my email and messaging requirements.  The install is very easy, it only takes about 30 mins, most of that time was spent waiting for things to load on the old box that I have chosen to test [...]

Well it seems that what I have is never enough. I am expanding again. No, I didn’t eat too much Chocolate at Easter. I am adding more servers and services to my network and still one external IPv4 addresses is not enough. I am trying to sort out some services and web hosting. I have [...]

I thought I was taking a break from working on my servers for a while, but instead I have been working on a plugin, it is called “Pause and Ponder”.  This plugin allows me enter a Title and some Text and have it display as a widget.  I bet you are thinking that isn’t a [...]

Well I have got my act together and configured a mail server for my domain. I am not handing out addresses just yet. I do have a couple of minor things I want to learn about my mail service before I announce to everyone that they can send me emails. It is always easier to [...]

I am moving forward again… Yes! This weekend I attempted to setup a DNS and with some success I think, I have made it! In the previous weeks I have experienced some set backs as you may have read in a previous post. So after giving myself some time off and not focusing too heavily [...]

Two weeks of set backs.  I am starting to find it hard to believe but it has been one set back after another for the last 2 weeks.  The latest in the long list is a theme not applying properly, which caused my Blog to go missing.  Yep I changed my theme and when I [...]

I have started to use the Cisco 877 Router.  The Command Line Interface is the same as most of the other Cisco devices I have ever had the chance to play with.  You can log in using console cable and do the configuration as per normal.  However I have stumbled across what is shaping up [...]

There is a considerable challenge in installing and maintaining a fully functional network and network services.  After making a couple of changes to my main server, I proceeded to find that the changes had an adverse effect on the rest of the network.  So after rectifying the disruption I was prompted me to re-design my network [...]