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Product Review: Paessler PRTG Network Monitor

Galido

Monitoring of LAN, WAN, VPN, and distributed sites. Extensive event logging. IPv6 support. PRTG offers different types of notifications such as email, push notifications, SMS, event log, syslog, SNMP trap, execute action/program, ticket assignment, sound alarm and more. SLA monitoring (service level agreement).

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

Sean Daniel

Routers by default will hand out their own IP as the DNS Server and proxy DNS out to the WAN configured (usually DHCP but sometimes services like OpenDNS) DNS servers. This is nothing to do with SBS, the standard server DNS server will obtain forwarders on install and not update them in the event that the server is moved to a new subnet.