Tag: hostname

What Is DNS Server Or Protocol Port Number?

Posted on 20/12/201817/12/2018 by İsmail Baydan

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

How To Change Linux Hostname In Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Kali, CentOS, RedHat?

Posted on 23/09/201823/09/2018 by İsmail Baydan

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,

What Is /etc/hosts File and How To Create and Edit It?

Posted on 21/06/2018 by İsmail Baydan

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

How To Get Linux Network IP Address In Different Ways ?

Posted on 02/05/201808/05/2018 by İsmail Baydan

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

How To Find and Change Ubuntu, Debian, Kali Mint Hostname?

Posted on 08/01/201823/09/2018 by İsmail Baydan

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

How To Change CentOS Server/Host Hostname?

Posted on 06/09/201706/09/2017 by İsmail Baydan

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

Windows Tracert Command Tutorial with Examples To find Path To Remote Host

Posted on 18/06/201723/04/2018 by İsmail Baydan

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

Linux Bash Default Environment Variables

Posted on 27/05/2017 by İsmail Baydan

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

How To Download and Install Kali Security and Penetration Test Linux Distribution?

Posted on 14/05/2017 by İsmail Baydan

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

How To Check, Show and Print Linux Version with Commands?

Posted on 01/12/201608/11/2018 by İsmail Baydan

Linux is the kernel and there are a lot of distributions those use kernel. Distributions provides different experience and flavors to the users. Some times getting distribution and version information