Posts Tagged ‘DNS’

Control Your Web Server With Your Browser

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely. See the standard modules page for a list of all the functions built into Webmin, or check out the screenshots.

Link: Webmin

DNS Vulnerability Checker

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Recently, a significant threat to DNS, the system that translates names you can remember (such as www.doxpara.com) to numbers the Internet can route (66.240.226.139) was discovered, that would allow malicious people to impersonate almost any website on the Internet. Software companies across the industry have quietly collaborated to simultaneously release fixes for all affected name servers. To find out if the DNS server you use is vulnerable, click below.

Link: DoxPara Research

Free DNS Tunneling Service

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Did you ever sit at the airport or at a cafe and there was a unencrypted wireless access point nearby, but whenever you wanted to visit a site their website would pop up asking for a fee to use the internet through their AccessPoint (aka. Captive Portal)?

But in most cases you are able to look up arbitrary hostnames, ie. google.com. That is because if you cannot resolve a host name your browser won’t display any site. So these providers usually allow to look up hostnames to then filter whether they are allowed to access the site or not. In the latter case, their pay-to-get-access site pops up.

But you can use the fact that you can resolve arbitrary hostnames to gain free connection to the internet. Not a very fast one, though, but still a free internet connection.

Link: DNStunnel

Reverse IP Domain Check DNS Tool

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

This amazing site rivals that of the pay service provided by whois.sc, which tells you what other sites are hosted on the IP address of any other site’s address you enter.

Link: myIPneighbors