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Tag Archives: networking

Setting up DNS on my network

I decided to set up bind9 today on my Gutsy server. It wasn’t too painful after I finally found some posts from someone who knew what they were doing (2 tutorials I read contained invalid configurations…). First, you install bind: sudo apt-get install bind9

ICMP Tunneling using ptunnel

I found this great little piece of software that does something really cool: it allows you to route your TCP traffic through a proxy using strictly ICMP packets for communication. Here’s a screenshot of it in action: This rocks – now I have to try it on some For-Pay wireless…

Another Speed Test

Did another speed test today. So I guess I effectively have approximately a 16Mbit/1Mbit Down/Up line. Horray me!

slurm is awesome

So, the aptly named slurm is pretty awesome, making pretty graphs of my network traffic. I think I should use it more often.