5 posts tagged with "Scripting"

Yesterday I saw a post, now removed, on Reddit that revealed that ESET uses DNS queries to do MAC address OUI lookups. This is quite smart because it allows a client to avoid maintaining a local copy of the OUI database and also means that the databases can be queried without having to have direct or proxied http access to an external API endpoint.

While rage coding a python MCP server for NetBox I realised I needed a better way to test it. You can use CURL to make requests of course but it turns out that there is a handy node.js package that provides comprehensive test capabilities for MCP servers.

Netbox open sourced their STDIO MCP server a while back and I have been playing around with it since then. The installation requires some local dependencies and the setup process was a bit tricky, but I managed to get it up and running with some trial and error. I found it substantially harder to set up and wouldn't necessarily trust that the sort of people who would benefit from having access to it would be able to easily set it up so I wanted to create a more user-friendly installation process by building an MCP server that runs remotely as a proxy to the Netbox API.

This is here primarily as a reminder to me; a note for when I need this again. You may already know this or you may find this useful to learn this.

I've put together a summary of some common search algorithms and how they work. This post covers key search algorithms used in computer science, explaining their approaches, strengths, weaknesses, and showing Python implementation examples.