travis' brain dump

So, I spent quite a bit of time digging around on the internet and came up with no solution to this issue. So I’m posting the solution to this one. I ran across this one while moving a mailbox from one site to another physically across a WAN. Moving mailboxes on the server from one datastore to the other worked just fine, however every time I ran a mailbox move from one location to another, it bombed out with the following error:

[5/10/2010 6:57:36 PM] [0] [ERROR] Error was found for Test User (test.user@testdomain.com) because: Error occurred in the step: Moving messages. Unable to unlock mailbox with error:
MAPI or an unspecified service provider.
ID no: 00000000-0000-00000000, error code: -1056749254
[5/10/2010 6:57:36 PM] [0] [06876] The operation has finished.

One might immediate think there is an issue with permissions since this was a common item found when doing a search on this particular error and showed up most often when doing a migration from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. In this particular instance, it is due to a problem with a WAN accelerator.

The best way to confirm this is to complete a dump on the interface on the source and target exchange servers when conducting the move. If the WAN accelerator is interfering it may manifest itself by showing a packet on source side that differs from the expected packet on the target side.

In this case, it was a transparency mode configured on a RiverBed device.

Hopefully this post will help someone keep from smashing their head into a keyboard for a couple of days since they can’t find the answer and point them in the right direction.

Figured this oddity was worth posting.

I was loading up a server today and for some reason, despite setting the nic with static ip, gw and dns information I couldn’t hit outside ip addresses.

When I submitted an “ipconfig /all” I noticed my gw in the config but also noticed 0.0.0.0 listed with and above it. Wtf?

Anyway, reboot didn’t fix it, resubmission of configuration didn’t fix it, but the following did.

1) Open up ‘cmd.exe’ in administrator mode.
2) Type ‘route delete 0.0.0.0′
3) Resubmit your ip settings putting the correct default gateway in.

Should be fine now. (Even after reboot) =)

Not sure what the deal was, but at least its a simple fix for a stupid issue.

Disclaimer: I can’t claim credit for finding this one… Carson found this one probably in his never ending quest to find the end of the internet.

wow… i mean, really… wow.

I can admit, I’ve seen some stupidity before, but this one really takes the cake. I seriously have to ponder if this kid will survive to adulthood. Evidently this kid, who posts up videos on YouTube, goes by the screen name ‘NextGenHacker101′… Personally that name makes me laugh in and of itself but pushing past that, I actually watched the video (posted below). ”NextGenHacker101″ goes on to explain how he’s going to show you an ip viewer than lets you see people’s connection speeds and such connected to a specific website. He goes on to explain this whole “cool” utility, etc.. etc.. and then goes to demonstrate…  

First off,  glancing at his desktop I had to stifle *some* laughter since he was instructing from Windows XP but pressing forward nearly choked on my drink as he prompted you to launch the command prompt ‘cmd’.  As the words left his mouth ‘Tracer-T’ I believe is where I completely lost all ability to maintain any composure. Seriously… if you’re going to “instruct” people on “cool tools” to view people’s connections, learn what the heck you’re talking about before making a complete idiot of yourself. *trace-rt* is short for “traceroute”… *rolls eyes*. I share this video so that you don’t actually need to go to YouTube and seek this confused individual out.

Could this tool be used in any shape or form for hacking? Sure. Could it be used the way this kid described it? Not at all.

For those of you that don’t know. The utility that this poor uninformed soul completely botched the explanation of is used to determine the route taken by packets across an IP network. It’s most often used for network troubleshooting and in no way could be used to show you who all is connected to a website or how fast their connection is.

Soo… I’m kinda hooked on my android device. Quite honestly, windows mobile got left far behind by iPhone and Android so it was time to move on. I can’t say I have any issues with this device so far and its fun to find new little things to do on it. Mobile devices have come a long way in their short lifetime.

In my discovery of this device I happened upon this neat little app that allows you to blog to wordpress via the app. Now, I could always use the browser (not as interface friendly) or email my blog for a post (lacks the ‘i used this cool app to post this’ feeling) but this little app is simple and fun to use.

We shall see if this actually gets me to blog more or ends up wasting space on my Cliq… lol probably the latter.