Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The hosts file is one of several system facilities that assists in addressing network nodes in a computer network. It is a common part of an operating system's Internet Protocol (IP) implementation, and serves the function of translating human-friendly hostnames into numeric protocol addresses, called IP addresses, that identify and locate a host in an IP network.
ClusterKnoppix is a specialized Linux distribution based on the Knoppix distribution, but which uses the openMosix kernel. Traditionally, clustered computing could only be achieved by setting up individual rsh keys, creating NFS shares, editing host files, setting static IPs, and applying kernel patches manually. ClusterKnoppix effectively ...
Added a history section to provide background on hosts files origins and uses. On my to-do list for this article: o Fix the crappy formatting, spelling errors, etc o Fix all the technical ambiguity, remove OS prejudices, etc. o Move chunks of the article into a more appropriate article, such as "Hosts_File_Filtering" or something
Admin4 [1] - an open source LDAP browser and directory client for Linux, OS X, and Microsoft Windows, implemented in Python. Apache Directory Server/Studio - an LDAP browser and directory client for Linux, OS X, and Microsoft Windows, and as a plug-in for the Eclipse development environment.
Unix-like operating systems commonly implement IP address blocking using a TCP wrapper, configured by host access control files /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow.. Both companies and schools offering remote user access use Linux programs such as DenyHosts or Fail2ban for protection from unauthorized access while allowing permitted remote access.
ne (for "nice editor") is a console text editor for POSIX computer operating systems such as Linux or Mac OS X. It uses the terminfo library, but it can also be compiled using a bundled copy of the GNU termcap implementation. There is also a Cygwin version. It was developed by Sebastiano Vigna of the University of Milan.
chroot is an operation on Unix and Unix-like operating systems that changes the apparent root directory for the current running process and its children.A program that is run in such a modified environment cannot name (and therefore normally cannot access) files outside the designated directory tree.
Free and open-source software portal; BIND name server; dig, a utility interrogates DNS servers directly for troubleshooting and system administration purposes. nslookup, another utility that can be used to obtain similar information; Root name server - top-level name servers providing top level domain name resolution