You go to your Package Center and your packages don’t load at all. The error is Connection failed. Please check your network and time settings. The problem is the URLs required by the Package Center can’t be resolved. There are a few issues that can cause...
Upon entering your office, you hear beeping from your NAS. You log in to DSM and see that there is an alert that a drive has been removed, causing a System Partition Failure. The problem is the drive was never removed. To get the missing drive to show back up again,...
If you recently changed your Unbound configuration and now you can’t access the Internet, you can verify Unbound is behaving properly by doing the following two things: Verify Unbound is actually running.Verify your configuration is actually running. This was...
I had an interesting interaction when using DietPi. I turned on the killswitch option in the VPN section and suddenly I couldn’t access the web interface for any installed package on the Raspberry Pi. It looks like DietPi didn’t include scripts to...
You added a network Location to This PC in Windows 10 from your NAS or other computer. You move stuff over and when you go to your network drive, the folders that you just moved aren’t there. Where did they go? Did something go wrong in the move? Luckily, no....
Learning IPv4 CIDR notation will allow you to simplify network configurations and network information management in IPv4 networks. CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) notation is a more concise representation of network addresses. It allows network administrators to...
This network troubleshooting tip of using a trace route is something every IT person should know, regardless of whether they work in networking or not. All IT staff should have the basic skill of diagnosing and escalating issues. The Point of Using a Trace Route? This...
This post is a frustrating tale of working through internet connection issues with my Internet Service Provider. It worked out well but it will be beneficial to share the tips I learned along the way. Accessing Your Modem First and foremost, here’s how to access...
All routers will have similar functions but available features and UI may be different for each one. Consider this a generic wireless router setup guide. Essentially a checklist of settings you should look for before using your shiny new router. When you setup a...
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