Linux, Windows, Security, Programming, Network Tutorials
Google is a huge company which provides paid and free services. It mainly operates in IT and internet area. Internet uses DNS in order to solve domain names into IP addresses. Because internet infrastructure works with IP addresses. Google provides
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New comers to the Linux generally asks for what is the purpose and usage of the /etc/hosts file. /etc directory holds system and service related configuration. hosts file is used to store host name or DNS to IP address resolution. It provides
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Hostname is used to identify the Linux hosts. We generally prefer to put related host names to the systems like web1, db5 etc. In this tutorial we will look how to find and print hostname and change it with different
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Tcpdump is everyday tool used by system and network administrator. We generally look simple use cases like host, port and protocol filter for tcpdump . In this tutorial we will look how to filter host, port and protocol in tcpdump. But
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Nmap is popular tool used by pentesters, system administrators and network administrators. Nmap provides a lot of features for free. In this tutorial, we will look host discovery features and options of nmap. Discover with Ping Scan One of the
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Performance is important part of the scan. Nmap developers always looks for optimized and adjustable performance options. Adjustable scan performance is important because scanning big networks will require a lot of time to complete job. As a security analyzer or
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Requirement for scanning is target specification. Nmap provides different methodologies to set targets. Single Host Address This is the simplest and mostly used target specification. We only provide single ip address.
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192.168.1.1 is the target ip address Dns Name Nmap
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DHCP is a protocol used to provide network related configuration to the network hosts. Mainly IP address information, network gateway, network mask and DNS server information are provided by DHCP protocol. DHCP have more features like providing boot file over
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Virtualbox is virtualization tool used to create virtual machines. Virtual machines can be cloned, created, deleted without affecting any external source in the host system. In this tutorial we will look how to install Virtualbox virtualization software in Windows operating
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While trying to ping or connect a remote host I can an error “no route to host”. How can I debug this error and solve it? As we know IP networks are constructed hop by hop which means there are
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