Tuesday, September 12th, 2006Do you find your self struggling with typing apt-cache search the whole time. It’s too time consuming and its easy to make a typo, typing in the whole string. There are quicker and easier ways accomplishing the same thing.
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006Resolving domain names can be very simple, besides what is so fascinating about looking up an ip address that belongs to a domain name? Well the domain naming system is a pretty complex piece of technology that you might take for granted. There are nice tools which are able to let you interact with this domain name system, one of them is dig, which is a acronym for domain information groper.
This tool can do more then just resolve domain names to ip addresses or visa versa. Lets look more closely into the world of domain name resolution and explorer the possibilites with dig. We will quickly run through the basics and at the end look at some nice features of dig.
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Monday, September 4th, 2006While working with VMware ESX 3 lately me and a college discovered a bug. Thing was we could not connect the ESX nodes to Virtual Control Center. It had something todo with DNS lookups, lets look at what it was.
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