how to open an SSH tunnel through another host:
# ssh -l <user> -L <local_port>:<remote_host>:<remote_port> <host_to_connect>
this can be chained through multiple hosts, e.g.
# ssh -l user1 -L 80:localhost.1234 server1 (type on local machine)
# ssh -l user2 -L 1234:localhost:80 server2 (type on server1)
now server2's port can be reached through http://localhost
On latest Ubuntu distributions (based 16.01 LTS) Kodi's add-ons won't connect to the internet due to a bug in the systems python-openssl package, wihich is outdated. They throw following error to the logs:
URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 0] Error>
So uninstalling the system package and upgrading to pyopenssl using pip worked just fine.
# sudo apt-get remove python-openssl # sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-pip python-dev libssl-dev # sudo pip install --upgrade pyopenssl
Add-ons are working afterwards.
Apache 2.4 has a module called mod_ratelimit. This module gives you the ability to limit the bandwidth of your requests posted to the web server. The usage is quite simple (read the docs):
First load the module (Apache 2.4 on FreeBSD). Uncomment following line in /usr/local/etc/apache24/httpd.conf
LoadModule ratelimit_module libexec/apache24/mod_ratelimit.so
This will load the module during next startup. Now how do i use it? Well, let's say you want the whole server to limit every request to 5MB/s, then use this:
<IfModule mod_ratelimit.c>
SetOutputFilter RATE_LIMIT
SetEnv rate-limit 5120
</IfModule>
The same can be applied to only specific directories if you need to:
<IfModule mod_ratelimit.c>
<Location "/downloads">
SetOutputFilter RATE_LIMIT
SetEnv rate-limit 5120
</Location>
</IfModule>
Last step, as apache needs to load a new module, restart your webserver, not reload:
# service apache24 restart