What Is DNS Server Or Protocol Port Number?
Domain Name System aka DNS is used to match domain names to the IP addresses. DNS is provided over intranet and internet servers with different port numbers. TCP or UDP DNS can use both transmission...
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How To Change Linux Hostname In Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Kali, CentOS, RedHat?
Hostname is used to name the systems. Normally the computer networks work with IP addresses in order to identify and communicate. But hostname provides human friendly way to name, identify, communicate with other systems. Example...
What Is /etc/hosts File and How To Create and Edit It?
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...
How To Get Linux Network IP Address In Different Ways ?
We can determine Linux system IP address in different ways. IP address is used to communicate over network and can be get and set in different ways. In this tutorial we will use Ubuntu distribution...
How To Find and Change Ubuntu, Debian, Kali Mint Hostname?
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...
How To Change CentOS Server/Host Hostname?
Host name is used to identify the systems like hosts, clients, servers etc. Host name provides human readable easy names to remember. In a big environment host names will provides some easy of use. This...
Windows Tracert Command Tutorial with Examples To find Path To Remote Host
Windows operating system provides some basic tools to troubleshoot network. tracert is one of the most used tool. tracertcommand simply trace route to the given IP address or remote host. tracert mainly provides the route to the...
Linux Bash Default Environment Variables
While working with Bash environment we generally need some variable data to set and get. Bash shell provides some default values about current user, hostname etc. as environment variable. In this tutorial we will look...
How To Download and Install Kali Security and Penetration Test Linux Distribution?
Kali is a Linux distribution or it is a security and penetration test distribution. It is beyond a Linux distribution and provides a lot of useful, popular and featureful tools to the security professionals. Some...
How To Check, Show and Print Linux Version with Commands?
Linux is the kernel and there are a lot of distributions those use kernel. Distributions provide different experience and flavors to the users. Some times getting distribution and version information from a Linux box became...
