Putting an __init__.py is one way of resolving the conflict. Unlike nose, current pytest does not try to unload test modules in order to import test modules with the same import name. I used to think it’s a bit magic to do this auto-unimporting and might mess up people’s expectation from what the import mechanism … Read more
You can specify an NTP server via DHCP, or Group Policy, or DNS SRV records. DHCP: GPO: SRV Record: If your client is unable to leverage any of those mechanisms… you can also pretty safely assume that all Active Directory domain controllers are also NTP servers. Which means that you should be able to find … Read more
SRV DNS records allow the use of DNS for publishing services and service discovery. Their main use is to allow services to run easily on non-standard ports and to reduce the configuration burden when setting up clients. A SRV record has the following form: _Service._Protocol.Name. TTL Class SRV Priority Weight Port Target Service: the symbolic … Read more
Malicious bots don’t guess IPv4 addresses anymore. They simply try them all. On modern systems this can take as little as a few hours. With IPv6, this is not really possible any longer, as you’ve surmised. The address space is so much larger that it’s not even possible to brute-force scan a single /64 subnet … Read more