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Product Review: Paessler PRTG Network Monitor

Galido

Monitoring of LAN, WAN, VPN, and distributed sites. IPv6 support. SLA monitoring (service level agreement). Monitoring QoS (Quality of service, for example, to monitor VoIP). Environmental monitoring. Extensive event logging. Monitoring without agents. Flexible Alerts. Various user interfaces. Failover Cluster: fault tolerance.

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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. I cannot move DHCP to the SBSe box as my Netgear router is a dual WAN device that has an auto-fallover setup for multiple ISPs. for DNS back to the internal clients.