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Learning Windows Server 2003: Domain Name System
White Papers The Domain Name System (DNS) is a staple of the public Internet and is the name resolution system of choice for both large and small networks. DNS is a directory of IP addresses and their corresponding hostnames, much like a phonebook in...
[October 24, 2007, 1:00]
Spamhaus domain name may be suspended
Talkback One definition of "terrorism" is "attacking innocents in the name of your cause". The bottom line is, if the machine that sends your email is on this list, a number of mail servers will automatically reject all email from your server.
[October 16, 2006, 15:41]
ICANN announces domain name changes
News The most recently released sTLD was the .PRO sTLD, which is aimed at giving professionals their own top level domain name. The body which oversees domain names has listed two measures to increase the number of domains available.
[November 6, 2003, 12:00]
Turkmenistan stands to win in domain name games
News While the Americans have proposed that this be used for trademarked company names, the Turkmen are selling .tm domains to anyone with £99 via the global domain name registry NetNames. A Turkmenistan domain name can easily be registered easily as...
[March 11, 1998, 16:25]
Verify DNS records with Dlint
News Every domain name on the Internet has at least one primary "name server" (DNS server) that stores its information. If you manage Domain Name System (DNS) records, you probably already know how seemingly minor errors can cause big problems.
[September 5, 2002, 13:07]
Symantec on alert after surge in Net activity
News Symantec's security service has been placed on alert in response to a substantial jump in domain name server-related activity across the globe. Qhosts-1's alters the PC's domain name server setting -- normally specified by the user's ISP -- and...
[October 3, 2003, 11:50]
Excite@Home outage hits thousands in US
News Email and Web connectivity were lost to many of Excite@Home's 2.1 million North American customers from Tuesday until Thursday due to a corrupted domain name server database, a company spokeswoman said.
[December 1, 2000, 9:58]
Build a scalable DNS infrastructure
News Here's how this actually works: a client program, such as a Web browser, that needs to connect to another computer using a domain name (for example, www.mydomain.com), sends the query to the DNS server that the client computer is configured to use...
[May 9, 2006, 13:05]
Attack on domain name servers fails
News If the domain is not found, then the request gets bumped up to a domain name server for the top-level domain, such as ".com". The Internet Software Consortium's "F" server responds to more than 270 million domain-name service queries each day...
[October 23, 2002, 7:46]
NetScanTools Pro
Downloads Features: Name Server Lookup (NSLOOKUP), Zone Transfer domain listing, Ping, Traceroute, Whois with automatic server selection, Port Scanner, Network Ping Sweep Scanner (NetScanner), Time Sync, Finger, Ident Server, NetBIOS Info and local shares...
[November 17, 2008, 8:46]
Winip
Downloads This lets others access your web, file, or other server the same way every time, instead of having to enWith WinIP, your machine will get a fully qualified domain name. WinIP can manage multiple hostnames pointing to different IP addresses.New...
[September 10, 2007, 14:40]
DNS servers 'vulnerable to attack'
News Make sure you run the latest version of your domain name server software. Internet Systems Consortium's BIND software, which performs the domain name resolution function, is out-of-date on a fifth of DNS servers — which underpin the Internet by...
[October 25, 2005, 17:55]
eBay Germany domain hijack: No prosecution imminent
News The teenager claims that he stumbled across Web sites which described how to do a DNS transfer and "just for fun" requested a domain name server (DNS) transfer for several sites including Google.de, Web.de, Amazon.de and eBay.de.
[September 8, 2004, 17:15]
Microsoft proposes Sender ID to jam spam
News With Caller ID, announced in February 2004, Microsoft proposed that the IP addresses of outgoing mail servers should be added in XML to the domain name server (DNS). He suggested that even with Sender ID, it might be possible to obtain a domain...
[June 28, 2004, 16:20]
Computer prank slips past security experts
News In reality, the exploit code attempts to use any computer on which it runs to send a simple form of Internet data to a single domain name server in an attempt to overwhelm the computer with information.
[February 2, 2001, 8:55]
eMail Validator
Downloads Here is a brief listing of its features:Import and export emails in multiple formats, including comma and tab delimited, and excel files.Easy to use, point-and-click interface.Syntax Checking of the emailValidates for valid and invalid...
[May 3, 2008, 8:00]
New shield repelled internet backbone attack
News The distributed denial-of-service attack on the Domain Name System (DNS) proved the effectiveness of the Anycast load-balancing system, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said in a document published on Thursday.
[March 12, 2007, 8:24]
.tm makes Net trademark debut
News The domain name does not act as a legal trademark. But there's a twist: ".tm" is actually the domain name for the country of Turkmenistan, located in Central Asia north of Afghanistan. The domains are assigned by the International Standards...
[February 4, 1998, 9:20]
DNS2Go
Downloads The DNS2Go client software is installed on the computer with which you want to associate your domain name. The bottom line is that anyone typing your domain name into a web browser or other client software will be led to your current IP address.
[January 9, 2009, 12:03]
Windows Services for Unix 3.5 review
Reviews This isn’t the same as participating in an NIS domain using the name mapping service. You need to be using Active Directory to use the NIS server, since an AD container object is used to manage the NIS domain.
[April 5, 2004, 15:55]
