June, 2009
Firefox 3.5 Final Officially Released
Firefox 3.5 makes surfing the Web easier and more enjoyable with exciting new features and platform updates that allow Web developers to create the next generation of Web content. Native support for open video and audio, private browsing, and support for the newest Web technologies will enable richer, more interactive online experiences. Performance. Firefox 3.5 [...]
How to Enable DNS Dynamic Updates to a DNS Server
Windows 2000 DHCP and DNS servers now support dynamic updates to a DNS server. Windows 2000 clients can dynamically update their forward lookup records themselves with the DNS server after the clients obtain a new IP address from a DHCP server. In Windows 2000 DHCP server, you can dynamically update the DNS records for pre-Windows [...]
How to Configure DNS Dynamic Update on a Windows 2000 DHCP Server
To configure DNS dynamic update for a Windows 2000 DHCP server: Click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then clickDHCP. Click the appropriate DHCP server or a scope on the appropriate DHCP server. On the Action menu, click Properties. Click the DNS tab. To enable DNS dynamic update for DHCP clients that support it, click to select theAutomatically [...]
How to Configure DNS Dynamic Update on a Windows 2000 DNS Server
To enable DNS dynamic update on a Windows 2000 DNS server: Click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click DNS. Click the appropriate zone under either Forward Lookup Zones or Reverse Lookup Zones. On the Action menu, click Properties. On the General tab, verify that the zone type is either Primary or Active Directory-integrated. If the zone type is Primary, click Yes [...]
How to Configure DNS Dynamic Update on a Windows 2000 DNS Client Computer
To configure DNS dynamic update on a Windows 2000 DNS client computer: Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Network and Dial-up Connections. Right-click the network connection that you want to configure, and then clickProperties. Click either the General tab (for the local area connection) or the Networking tab (for all other connections), click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and then clickProperties. [...]
How to Configure DNS Dynamic Update on Multiple-Homed Clients
If a dynamic update client is multiple-homed (if it has more than one adapter and an associated IP address), it registers all of its IP addresses with DNS by default. If you do not want the client to register all of its IP addresses, you can configure it to not register one or more IP [...]
How to Configure DNS Dynamic Update for DHCP Clients
By default, Windows 2000-based DHCP clients are configured to request that the client register the A resource record and the server register the PTR resource record. By default, the name that is used in the DNS registration is a concatenation of the computer name and the primary DNS suffix. To change this default name, open [...]
How to Add Members to the DnsUpdateProxy Group
Use the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in to configure the DnsUpdateProxy security group. For more information, refer to Windows 2000 help, and search for “To add a member to a group”. Note If you are using multiple DHCP servers for fault tolerance and you use secure dynamic updates, add each of the computers that [...]
How to Use the DnsUpdateProxy Security Group
You can configure a Windows 2000 DHCP server so that it dynamically registers host A and PTR resource records on behalf of DHCP clients. If you use secure dynamic updates in this configuration with Windows 2000 DNS servers, resource records may become stale. For example, consider the following scenario: A Windows 2000 DHCP server (DHCP1) [...]
How to Allow Only Secure Dynamic Updates -Windows
Click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click DNS. Under DNS, expand the applicable DNS server, expand Forward Lookup Zones (orReverse Lookup Zones) , and then click the applicable zone. On the Action menu, click Properties. On the General tab, verify that the zone type is Active Directory-integrated. In the Allow dynamic updates? box, click Only secure updates. Caution In Windows 2000, [...]
How to Configure Remote Access Servers to Use the Secondary IAS Server
Configure each Routing and Remote Access Server (RRAS) with two RADIUS servers that correspond to the primary and secondary IAS servers. If one IAS server becomes unavailable, the RRAS server will automatically “fail over” to the other server. Log on to the RRAS computer as an administrator. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then [...]
How to Copy Primary IAS Configuration Settings to the Secondary IAS Server
ou can copy the configuration settings, including registry settings from another IAS server by using the netsh command. To do this: NOTE: Both IAS servers must be running the same versions of Microsoft Windows 2000. Log on to the primary IAS server. Click Start, click Run, type cmd in the Open box, and then click OK. Type the following command, and [...]
How to Configure a Primary Internet Authentication Service Server on a Domain Controller
This step-by-step article describes how to install and configure Microsoft Internet Authentication Service (IAS) on a domain controller. IAS can run as a Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server. You can use IAS for centralized authentication and accounting of multiple Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) servers. Install IAS To install IAS: Click Start, point [...]
How to Flush DNS Cache in Sun Solaris
It may be sometime required to flush your DNS Cache mostly when trying to troubleshoot a problem with your name service or when there was an invalid DNS entry after a server outage. The possible solution to clear these cached invalid entries or to wait till the record expires based on its TTL (Time To [...]
How to recover/reset root password in Sun solaris
It is recommeded that the security for the physical access to the server is restricted so as to ensure that there is no unauthorized access and anyone who follows this routine is an authorized personnel. Boot the server with a Sun Solaris Operating System CD (I’m using a Solaris 10 CD but doesn’t matter really) [...]