Secure your DNS - replace BIND
News It can be used to publish a list of IP addresses that provide a specific service.DnsfilterDnsfilter is an IP-address-to-hostname conversion utility.dnsip, dnsipq, dnsname, dnstxt, dnsmxThese are command line tools used to manage the DNS services...
[February 5, 2003, 9:32]
Solve Windows 2000 DNS server problems
News NSLOOKUP is a command line utility that allows you to query DNS server zone files. Even though you can do that simply by opening a browser window, you can also PING the user's workstation using the workstation's DNS name rather than an IP address.
[May 19, 2003, 13:03]
How to tweak Linux network files
News If neither nameserver is found, bind (the system handling DNS on a Linux server) will search the entire domain (in this case, nater.org) for a nameserver. The /etc/hosts file can act as a simple DNS table, so an unlimited amount of entries can be...
[January 7, 2003, 8:56]
NetScanTools Pro
Downloads Access any name server for DNS records. Find the Authoritative DNS for a domain. The advantage they have over their command line counterparts is in the presentation and integration. Here are just a few of the things you can do using NetScanTools...
[November 17, 2008, 8:46]
Alarm over 'pharming' attacks
Talkback Third case in point: In order to fight pharming attacks, as indicated above, instead of using the alpha-numeric names, I program the IP address of my bank into my 'favorites' folder and banking spread sheets so as to bypass DNS inquiries.
[May 26, 2005, 16:48]
Improve TCP/IP performance in W2K registry
News Windows 2000 Server's TCP/IP Properties Sheet is a little deceptive in giving the impression that basic information, such as an IP address, subnet mask, default gateway, or DNS server, is all that's required to create connections.
[October 8, 2002, 14:24]
Microsoft Cluster Service or network load balancing?
News When you reach the maximum of 32 servers, you can start another cluster and use DNS round robin to alternatively hand out the clustered (virtual) addresses. Check out this article for a clarification on the differences between NLB and DNS round robin.
[November 7, 2002, 15:28]
FTP not VPN
Blog If your net connection doesn’t provide a fixed IP use as a Dynamic DNS service as I’ve mentioned before in the second from last para. There’s also of course the ever trusty and pervasive command line FTP client.
[January 7, 2009, 7:03]
