Monthly Archives: December 2009

Enable database encryption on PuTTY Connection Manager

PuTTY Connection Manager is a free PuTTY Client Add-on. It can store sensitive information’s like IP address username and passwords of our Servers and Network switches. We can save even commands and scripts in the Connection manager database. Once a connection create and save in the database anyone can access that server without user id and password. It is not …

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Security features of OpenDNS

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OpenDNS is one of the public DNS Servers. Open DNS provides many useful features like security caching and web filtering. Comparing to other Public DNS services, security is the main feature of open DNS. Here we listed some security features of Open DNS

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IP address conflict – Source device identification

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IP ( Internet Protocol ) Address conflict occurs when two different devices in local network are using the same IP address, It can happen due to the mistakes from engineers or rogue DHCP server. However once the IP conflict happened in a critical devices we want to find out the device in few minutes. In large networks it is difficult …

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Default Time To Live (TTL) values

TTL is a timer value included in packets sent over TCP/IP-based networks that tells the recipients how long to hold or use the packet or any of its included data before expiring and discarding the packet or data. Folloing are the list of Devices / Operating system with Default TTL values

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