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I encounter an issue that unable to ping to FQDN but able to ping to IP address after setting up a Fortigate firewall. The remote office do not have any DHCP server and DNS server. Therefore I setup the Fortigate 60D as the DHCP and create a IPSec to the HQ office. I then try to perform nslookup on the connected device and notice it provide me the ISP DNS instead of internal DNS. As resolution, go to Network > Interfaces > internal. Edit the internal interfaces and set the DNS server to Specify. Enter the internal DNS server IP.

Accessing from external public IP to Fortigate devices are important especially for remote site. However, this might open up security loop hole for attacker to access to company environment via public IP. Login to Fortigate, navigate to Network > Interfaces > the wan interface > edit. Under Administrative Access > uncheck the HTTPS / HTTP. Also make sure the SSH & SNMP is not checked.

After sign in to Fortigate SSL VPN, user unable to access to local sites, unable to RDP to server or accessing network drive. When try to run ping to the FQDN, it will show could not find the host. However, if try to ping with suffix ad.local, it will be able to access. After searching for quite sometime, I found an article  show how to enter the dns suffix via CLI. For my case, it works as below. Set DNS search suffix using CLI config vpn ssl settings set dns-suffix ad.local end Set Client DNS Server in the GUI Navigate to VPN –> SSL –> Settings –> Tunnel Mode Client Settings.  Specify the DNS Server setting and enter the IP addresses of your corporate DNS servers. Finally it works.

Disk performance may turn slow when file system fragmentation. It sometimes called file system aging. We often heard disk fragmentation happens mostly on Windows only due to the NTFS. There are bunch of information about disk fragmentation which you can get online. About File System Fragmentation and Defragmentation . For some layman term explanation I use to heard, is that disk defragmentation is require to keep the system speed up to performance. It is just like keeping your home wardrobe tidy and clean; by utilizing and rearrange all the space in neat form. Which we usually fold and stack the clothes in proper alignment or hang the clothes with hanger. In this case, searching for your clothes is easier than you throw bunch of clothes unfold into the wardrobe. There are several free defragment tools you can find online which I have tried before and found some are pretty good which I even implement to all the PC in the office replacing the default Windows defragment tools. 1. Defra...

When I switch my laptop OS from Ubuntu 10.04 to Fedora 16, I really stuck with it. Running in Gnome 3, the interface has a big changes. As usual, after the installation of the OS, time to get some of my favorite settings up. 1. Restricted RPMS MP3 codec doesn't come in free with Fedora neither Ubuntu due to it was license. We can get the RPMS from RPM fusion. http://rpmfusion.org/ Just run the following command in the terminal: su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm' To install the gstreamer and ffmpeg for better multimedia playback such as mp3 files; run the following command: sudo yum install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras gstreamer-plugins-bad-nonfree gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg 2. VLC player Once you have the RPM fusion, you can grab VLC player from there. ...

I try Empathy, Pidgin, aMSN and Emesene. After all, I still choose Emesene. Good enough for me. To install, run the following command from terminal. sudo apt-get install emesene Once installation completed, several things I will do. Go to System > Preferences > Startup Applications , add emesene into startup program. For some people, their wireless connection may not connect immediately when boot up. This will cause connection error on emesene. What you can do is add a delay to the application startup. Enter the command: bash -c "sleep ; emesene" bash -c "sleep 30; emesene" On the Emesene, go to Options > Plugins. Check on CurrentSong > Configure. As for my case, I choose Rhythmbox as my music player. You can have Lastfm, Songbird, VLC and etc. Once done, just press on the music icon to enable or disable the current song. Not only that, you can enable others features such as gmailNotify, Facebook and etc. All the plugin comes along by default and you ca...

I had been using Ubuntu for quite sometimes. I can't recall when but it was since 6.06LTS (Dapper Drake). It was introduce by my ex-colleague. Back then, Ubuntu was so limited features. I use to have dual boot, Windows XP and Ubuntu. After several release still dual boot. I can't let go Windows and most of the time I'm using Windows. From time to time, my system always infected with virus. I purchase original Antivirus, yet still infected by virus. Time to time, Ubuntu getting mature and stable. More features arrive and getting user friendly. I decided to go for Ubuntu permanently. Being using it for a year plus and still happy using it. I'm currently using Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat). Although Ubuntu comes with lots of built-in applications, still I feel there are some applications which I prefer using. 1. Ubuntu Restricted Extras Some applications we may need it but not bundle along with Ubuntu due to legal issues. Example mp3, flash, java , some codecs and fonts...

I always want to get a screen capture of my Android device to my PC. I found this application name screencast. It's use for Android application development. Although I don't developed application but it is useful for me to capture screen shot. 1. Go to this LINK and download the installer for SDK. I downloaded the exe. 2. If there are no Java JDK installed, it will prompt you to do so or you can download it from HERE . Get the JDK installed in your PC. Then install the Android SDK installer. 3. Download the android screencast file here HERE and drop to the Android SDK Manager folder. 4. Make sure the HTC sync driver is installed. Do not launch the HTC sync application, we just need the driver. 5. Connect the HTC and select HTC sync mode. 6. Launch the SDK Manager. Ignore any prompt. Go to available packages, install the Android SDK Platform-tools, revision 3. Once completed, close this Android SDK manager. 7. Launch command prompt, navigate to the SDK Manager installation fo...

1. Angry birds This is a must application to be installed in my Android. Listen to the music and the laughing sound from the birds. It just keep my day entertaining. Well, the Angry bird I downloaded for my Android is a full version. It does show as HTC features apps in the HTC Hub. Not sure about others brand. 2. Papago! X5 I got this apps from my colleague. It is a crack version with latest full MalFreeMaps. It will be pointless for an Android that comes with GPS but unable to use GPS. 3.Facebook for Android I believe everyone own an Android may have a Facebook account. At least this is the apps that can keep you posted. 4. Youtube for Android This will make viewing youtube video better. It can let you watch facebook youtube post or any link into native view. 5. Teamviewer Teamviewer is one of my most favorite application. It is a cross platform desktop sharing. I can remote or share my desktop from Windows, Linux, iPhone and Android. I can even have a portable version in my pen...