How the Domain Name System Works (DNS)…
Learn the ins and outs of how the Domain Name System (known as DNS by the cool kids), takes a name like dnsmadeeasy.com and translates it into an IP address to find content on the web.
Category: Networking
The Inners of a Small Computer Security Firm
From: Greg To: Jussi Subject: need to ssh into rootkitim in europe and need to ssh into the server. can you drop open upfirewall and allow ssh through port 59022 or something vague?and is our root password still 88j4bb3rw0cky88 or did we change to88Scr3am3r88 ?thanks From: Jussi To: Greg Subject: Re: need to ssh into… […]
What is krb5kdc?
Are you receiving a message on startup, asking to allow krb5kdc and/or mDNSResponder to connect through your firewall?  Well, never fear.  Krb5kdc is the Kerberos version 5 Authentication Service and  Key  Distribution Center (AS/KDC).  In other words, an operating level component involved in Security framework… Leopard and Snow Leopard use the Kerberos framework to support an authenticated […]
Half a Million Space Battles! Congrats!
According to Cliffski, the author of Gratuitous Space Battles, the GSB server has served over half a million battles for network games…  (Over 501,934 battles at the time of posting) See here: Here’s a chirpy statistic. At the time of writing, the total number of online ‘challenge’ games of Gratuitous Space Battles that have been played […]
Yet again, Time Warner doesn’t understand…
Yes, my cable bill is rising again, but I should be glad…  At least that’s Time Warner’s belief, why? Well, for example: New! ABC TV Show Episodes for 99 Cents Rent your favorite episodes of hit ABC shows like Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy, and Lost for just 99 cents! Road Runner Video Store lets you download […]
Congratulations to Perceptive Automation! (Indigo Touch 1.7 release)
Congratulations to Perceptive Automation on the Indigo Touch 1.7 release. From the Release Notes: We are excited to announce that Indigo Touch 1.7 has been approved by Apple and is now available in the App Store. New features include: Support for iOS 4 multitasking — commands will finish executing and images will continue to load even […]
AirPlay Reverse Engineered to Send Video From iOS Devices to Macs
TUAW’s Erica Sadun has put together an alpha version of a Mac OS X application known as “AirPlayer” that does exactly that. What AirPlayer does is create and advertise a custom Bonjour AirPlay service that pretends to be an Apple TV. Bonjour is Apple’s zero configuration networking solution for allowing devices and applications to communicate […]
iOS 4.2.1 – New Safari Features
As you know iOS 4.2 is a free update for every iPhone, iPod or iPad device available now. Apple has not yet updated the developers documentation reflecting this, but Maximilano Firtman has discovered some of these changes.  This new release provides some major changes on HTML5 and W3C future standards support, like WebSocketsand Accelerometer support, print support, […]