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Setting Up Anubis on FreeBSD

I've noticed a few times recently my Forgejo server has been triggering alerts on my monitoring systems that is isn't responding as fast as it normally should be. Low and behold - it's due to AI crawlers causing it to grind to a halt as the scrape every little section of the service for their own needs.
This is how I implemented Anubis to help mitigate this problem.

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My Battle with Netcup, IPv6 and FreeBSD combination

Recently I've started to migrate some of my VPS's to Netcup as I have found their offerings more performant, and less expensive, than other VPS providers.
However, it seems due to the way Netup's IPv6 network is set up causes some issues with FreeBSD, and allegedly other BSDs leading to loss of connectivity via IPv6.

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Joining Debian Linux (Desktop) to an Active Directory Domain

I've come across many articles about how to join a linux system to a Microsoft Active Directory domain and they all work more or less with some tweaking. This is my article, here describing my own processes for doing it, trying to explain each bit as it comes.

Part of a "Using Linux in a Windows Domain" group of posts.
This article is for desktop Debian Linux - for setting up a PC so it can be used by a standard user of the PC.

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