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What Can You Get from an IP Address and Why is it Important?

Galido

Along with Transmission Control Protocol, a person’s IP address is what lets their computer communicate with their Wi-Fi network. First of all, your Internet network is composed of four distinct parts, including something called a data link layer. Lastly, there’s the application layer. Dynamic and static.

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Technology Short Take 153

Scott Lowe

I’ve still been collecting links to share with you, though, and here’s the latest collection. Networking. This article contains some good information on IPv6 for those who are just starting to get more familiar with it, although toward the end it turns into a bit of an advertisement. Start here. Version 3.8.0

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Technology Short Take #87

Scott Lowe

Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking. Vincent Bernat has a really in-depth article on IPv4 route lookup on Linux (and one on IPv6 route lookup as well). Ivan Pepelnjak has a great article that tries to get to the kernel of truth in the middle of the intent-based networking hype. Servers/Hardware.

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Technology Short Take #77

Scott Lowe

Networking. Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. In a bit of an older post from late summer 2016, Matt Oswalt outlines why network engineers should care about the network software supply chain. Good advice.

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Setting up Wireguard for AWS VPC Access

Scott Lowe

Setting up the Wireguard interface(s). All that’s needed is to install the necessary userspace tools. All that’s needed is to install the necessary userspace tools. On Fedora, that’s done with dnf install wireguard-tools. Apple’s macOS, for example, has a Wireguard app on the Mac App Store.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: The Basics of Local DNS for Small Business.

Sean Daniel

With the SBS 2008 and SBS 2011 the Connect to the Internet Wizard would analyze your network and determine a static IP address to use, and then ensure you like it before making it the server’s IP address. DNS works flawlessly in such an environment. If no server is found, the DHCP DNS assigned address is kept.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Scanning the Internet

ForAllSecure

Speaking at this year’s SecTor 2021 , he shares some of his findings on Kabolos , a stealthy malware that uses SSH credentials to hide, that is perhaps exposed much easier through scanning the IPv4 space -- all 3.7 Perhaps there was a bulletin board behind it, or perhaps there was a corporate network. Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé