HOW TO : Use netcat (nc) on Windows 7
netcat is a swiss army tool for network/security professionals. You can use it to listen on certain ports or connect to certain ports. For example, say,...
Networking
HOW TO : Setup Global Redirect in Lighttpd
If you have ever managed a web application, you know you have to take it down at times :). And you usually want to show an...
HOW TO : Capture HTTP Headers using tcpdump
Quick how to on capturing HTTP headers using tcpdump on a web server (running Linux). On the web server, issue the following command [bash] tcpdump -s...
HOW TO : Check status of bond interface in Linux
For my notes.. If you ever wanted to check the status of a bonded interface configure in Linux (esp RHEL), you can check the status by...
Express.com DNS outage
I am sure a lot of people shop on express.com , but I probably get the credits for being the first blogger to post that express.com...
HOW TO : Load/Stress test a Linux based server
We ran into an issue at work recently, which prompted us to do some performance testing on some of our Linux servers. The requirement was to...