Securing your SSH server !

SSH is the most powerful tool with which you can access your server. As Uncle Ben says in Spiderman — Remember, with great power, comes great responsibility. If your service is not hardened, it can be exploited to a level directly proportional to the power of...

Issue with parsing of PHP pages !

Are you facing the scenario in which the PHP page is getting downloaded to your local machine, instead of showing it ? For example, when www.domain.com/index.php is  given in browser, the file index.php gets downloaded rather than displaying it. This is an issue where...

Too much denied named queries ?

When you have setup a production box, running with a DNS server ( named service, in this matter ), you get tones of queries. If you have disabled recursion, lesser the number of DNS workload. While going through your /var/log/messages, have you found lots of query (...

How do I clear my DNS cache !

The local DNS cache in your machine will store the locations  of web-servers/websites that contain pages which you have recently viewed. If the location of these pages have  changed, you will be unable to access them due to the local DNS cache ( the one cached by your...

GNS3 – Quick installation and setup (for Ubuntu)

This is a small intro on how to install GNS3 on Ubuntu platforms.           GNS3 is a graphical network simulator, which gives you the ability to create network topologies graphically and give the devices a simulated environment to run. This...

Investigating your Linux box for vulnerabilities

A server in a live environment is always susceptible to malware attacks, code vulnerabilities, hacking, rootkits and what not else ! Analyzing your server for these back-doors and pin-pointing the exact issue always poise a big problem to the server owners or their...