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local DNS not working properly [migrated]
I'm having troubles setting up a LAN DNS server.
I have multiple devices on a network and I would like my domain name to work on the LAN via any of those devices.
The DNS server resides on the ...
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Strange connectivity issues between workstations and Servers
I have a situation whereby there are 3 sites.
Site a - User site
Site b - User site
Site c - datacentre
Site a can talk to site c fine
Site b can not talk to everything in site C
In particular, ...
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How to access Virtual Machine in LAN with proxy
I have setup a website in a virtual machine running in VMWare Workstation (Trial).
I need to access that website in our LAN network. But there is a proxy on our the LAN.
When I try to access the ...
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Linux router: ping doesn't route back
I have a Debian box which I'm trying to set up as a router and an Ubuntu box which I'm using as a client.
My problem is that when the Ubuntu client tries to ping a server on the Internet, the packets ...
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Enable user registration - eJabberd
I am a complete n00b to configuring Jabber/XMPP servers and I am hoping to get some help getting set up. I have done all of this and installed pidgin. I seem to be able set up my "admin-user" in ...
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How to route/nat Hamachi IP to LAN IP? [closed]
I have a game server (GS) running and accept connection via Hamachi. In this case, my GS have Hamachi IP 5.5.5.5
On LAN, GS have IP 10.0.0.10, Database server : 10.0.0.20, Web server 10.0.0.30.
GS ...
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Static Routes on Windows - Computer with two NICs connected to two routed networks
I asked this on another site recently, but I figured this might be a good place to ask this as well:
Please take a look at the diagram below. My question is in regards to computer "C" in the middle ...
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network restricted website
How can I restrict my network connections to a only my web-server?
EG, a user would connect to my network (WIFI/LAN) when they open a web browser and enter 127.0.0.1 it will load my app. But if they ...
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MDB database file moved off-site
A large client that uses my MDB based application has moved the MDB file off-site so that my application connects to it over a WAN.
How can I convince them to put the MDB file back on-site on to the ...
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Setting up a Windows Server based Office LAN / WLAN environment
Okay so we wish to setup a small office LAN / WLAN. We have 10 desktop PC's and 5 Laptops. which makes around 20 users. Those with laptops will only connect via the wireless network, if needed they ...
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Access ports versus trunk ports?
Can someone please explain the difference between access ports and trunk ports on a switch? I'm starting to learn networking, and my understanding is that access ports are used to connect endpoints ...
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'Gigabit' Ethernet Port Tester? [closed]
A quick google search shows there seems to only exist handheld testers for 10/100 Ethernet ports. Any ideas why that is and where we could find one that works with a Gigabit LAN? Perhaps the 10/100 ...
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Forward access to Apache on a virtual machine (vmware)
I have setup a server in a virtual machine using VMWare.
The server is Apache running on Debian (the virtual machine). The host machine is Windows 7.
Now, I would like everyone on the LAN to be able ...
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Samba domain trust errors on a specific interface
We have a windows domain that also has RHEL member servers in it. All the servers have a primary network connection to the LAN, but some servers also have private dedicated links to one of our RHEL ...
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Can't communicate between lan ports on openwrt router
I've got a WBMR-HP-G300H Buffalo Airstation router on which I've installed the lates OpenWRT software.
All is working well (ADSL, WIFI etc) except for one niggle. I can't communicate between lan ...
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Remote call bash script as super user
I created a windows xp bat script to modify etc/hosts file.
I want to share this script at other machine, then from another computer I want to invoke these script to modify hosts file at first ...
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Do switches sometimes need rebooting?
In your opinion, do switches sometimes need a restart?
I'm asking this because today our NAS stopped working properly, and was only fixed when we restarted the switch it was attached to.
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Are Link-Local routes necessary (IPv4)?
I noticed in my routes output in RHEL6 (and most 2.6.x series Linux), for every interface I see the creation of the following route in my kernel routing table:
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 ...
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Can't Ping host, nmap detects it?
I have a simple question that I'm trying to wrap my head around. I know this requires knowledge of my internal network, but at a glance, what do you guys think..
I cannot ping a host in my network ...
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LAN with around 10 Computers loses internet connection
We have around 10 computers in our private LAN. There is currently 3 routers and one big swich connecting all the computers. 2 of the routers had there DHCP disconnected in the beginning.
In the ...
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what's the difference between ICMP prohibited ICMP unreachable?
If I want to forbid a route to response a network, should I use
ip route add unreachable 209.10.26.51 or ip route add prohibit 209.10.26.51?
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Using two lan eth0,eth1 by ubuntu server
I have a ubuntu server. I need to use eth0,eth1 by connecting two LAN cable. I edit network interface by vi /etc/network/interface.
eth0 works fine but eth1 dose not work.
What is my problem?
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How to configure PC as a gateway?
I'm researching a project. If lets say a lab has 20 PC,
1 tutor PC and the rest is 19 student pc,
and in my project all the network traffic from student pc should go through the tutor pc before ...
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Network Balancer for LAN?
Can it be possible to give a higher priority to certain PC's internet speed? Curiosity ran into my mind.
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How to configure pfsense to use LAN ports as local switched ports?
I have a pfsense box with 6 LAN ports. I'd like to use one as the WAN port, and 5 as local LAN ports, just like a home gateway/router. How to setup the LAN ports so that they are all in the same ...
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Gateway Modem loses ability to DNS lookup intermittently, often under heavy load
We're using a Bell 2Wire Gateway modem/router as our only hub (with some switches attached).
Intermittently, but frequently when a large download is initiated, all computers on our LAN lose the ...
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Tools to inspect an ethernet packet travels through host's interfaces?
I am debugging a local ethernet connection on a Linux machine. I want to inspect the ethernet packets as they travel. in and out current machines' interfaces. I do not have a GUI on the machine. Is ...
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The ping response time doesn't reflect the real network response time
I encountered a weird problem that the response time returned by ping is almost fixed at 98ms.
Either I ping the gateway, or I ping a local host or a internet host. The response time is always ...
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Equipment Needed to setup up a WAN?
What equipment is needed to set up a WAN, besides routers? What aspects of setting it up and maintaining it make it so much more expensive than a LAN?
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Moving Portable Office. Have a LAN & Phone line query?
We are about to move a portable office that has 8 phones and 12 lan connections. They are all wired back to our main switch and Nortel bcm200 phone system which are only about 20m (65ft) away. After ...
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How to forward static IP to the server computer in the LAN
We want to have an office server, we already have static IP. But the thing is that we need to have following structure:
ISP Modem
Router
Server
Wireless router
Also I'v tried ...
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Is it bad that latency for our internal LAN varies greatly within the 15 - 40 ms range?
I've always thought the "typical" latency for a small office wired Ethernet network would be <5 ms. However, pinging the default gateway yields an average of 14 ms, and any host is around 30 ms.
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What is the bottleneck in VPN connection?
I have a LAN behind a Linksys RV016 Router. It is connected to the internet with DSL line with asymetric parameters 2Mbit download / 512 kbit upload.
In this LAN I have MS SQL server, and i want to ...
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Encrypt LAN and wifi traffic on small private network
I need some advice about encrypt all traffic on a small private network running wi-fi and LAN traffic on 192.168.0.x network. The network would comprise of client laptops connecting to the wi-fi ...
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Relation between private network and local area network? [closed]
From Wikipedia:
In the Internet addressing architecture, a private network is a
network that uses private IP address space, following the standards
set by RFC 1918 and RFC 4193. These ...
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Practical difference between CISCO C2960PD-8TT-L and Netgear ProSafe GS108P
So I'm setting up a new department and doing some shopping for our new 4 developer team. I need to get some switches so that each member has at least 2 ethernet ports +1 with POE for an IP phone (1 ...
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How ISPs will assign IPs /subnets for end users in IPv6
Consider two scenarios:
The end user has a simple computer, dual-stack
The end user has a LAN behind a dual-stack router
How will ISPs differentiate each one of these kind of users in IPv6?
An ...
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routers function but cannot ping or remote admin
I have set up 3 cisco wireless routers as wireless access points. Each has a static network ip and subnet/gateway identical to everything else on the network. They also each have local ips that I ...
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What equipment/software is needed for setting up a LAN-based webserver for learning the ropes locally? [closed]
I'm a complete linux/networking beginner. What equipment/software will be needed to do this? Basically I want to set up a server computer and be able to connect to it locally with my desktop, and ...
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Connection of a 10/100Mb adapter to 1000Mb LAN
I have the following problem. I cannot get an IP address using DHCP. I have a 10/100Mb adapter on a set-top box connected to a 1000Mb LAN.
When I boot up the set-top box it gets an IP from the DHCP ...
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Local Area Network (LAN) communication protocol
I'm a bit confused, and was wondering if someone can set me straight. Under a Local Area Network (LAN), what is the communication protocol for the data packets under i.e. ethernet CAT5 cable that ...
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Share Windows XP internet connection through multiple LAN [closed]
I have dial up connection in my XP tower with a few ethernet ports. How can I share this internet connection to more than 1 computer via the tower's ethernet ports (without router/switch/hub)?
And ...
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How can I transfer a large number of big files over local network with pause/resume support? [closed]
My MacBook has about 400GB of files (videos, music, documents, etc.) that I need to transfer to a Windows PC over my local network. My router is semi-disfunctional, though, so every so often it stops ...
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Cisco 878 Router Physical Layer troubleshooting
My problem:
Upon connecting the FastEthernet0 with a straight-through cable to a Catalyst switch, the line protocol comes up briefly and then goes down. Interface goes down too, I now have this on my ...
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A good topology for my network
I have this topology in my network at the company where I work:
Where the only router is the 'main router' (is here where we receive the internet signal from our provider) the others networks ...
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Prioritising specific users' and server's traffic on a LAN?
I'm fairly new to network design and I was wondering if someone could help clarify a couple of things regarding traffic prioritisation on a LAN.
Some background: I'm designing a network that will ...
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Virtual Hosts on a windows machine in local network
I am running an Apache 2.2.21 on Win7 x64, using sucessfully a row of different virtual hosts
local.projectOne
local.projectTwo
...
So far this was fine, using the hosts file to map'em all to ...
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Remote Desktop to WAN address from inside LAN doesn't work
I have a router opened up to allow Remote Desktop to one of the machines. It works if I try to connect from outside the network. If I however am inside the LAN and try to connect using the WAN IP ...
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Assign a static IP to a Windows Server 2008 R2 - where to get static IP addresses [closed]
On Windows Server 2008 R2, I know how to assign a static IP address to that from lan properties windows.
In my current server, I am working with a hosting provider and they provide me 5 IP address ...
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Printing from a wireless laptop to a printer on a different lan network [closed]
I have a laptop connected to the internet via a wireless router in our office. Also the office has a separate LAN network that has a router. The printer on this network is connected to a computer via ...
