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The Linux Network Administrator's Guide is a book on setting up and running Unix and Linux networks. [1] The first and second editions are freely available in electronic form under the GFDL . It was originally produced by Olaf Kirch and others as part of the Linux Documentation Project with help from O'Reilly .
Server software for the Domain Name System (DNS) communications protocol that runs on Linux kernel-based operating systems. Pages in category "DNS server software for Linux" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
dnsmasq is a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder, designed to provide DNS, and optionally DHCP and Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) services, to a small-scale network. It can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global DNS.
resolv.conf is a computer file used in various operating systems to configure the system's Domain Name System (DNS) resolver.The file is a plain-text file usually created by the network administrator or by applications that manage the configuration tasks of the system.
Linux also features iwspy, to read the signal, noise and quality of a wireless connection. Other related tools for configuring Ethernet adapters are: ethtool, mii-tool, and mii-diag in Linux and the command dladm show-link in Solaris. The ip suite has a similar purpose and is meant to replace the deprecated ifconfig. [6]
dig is a network administration command-line tool for querying the Domain Name System (DNS).. dig is useful for network troubleshooting and for educational purposes. [2] It can operate based on command line option and flag arguments, or in batch mode by reading requests from an operating system file.
DNS-SD (DNS Service Discovery [16]) allows clients to discover a named list of service instances and to resolve those services to hostnames using standard DNS queries. The specification is compatible with existing unicast DNS server and client software, but works equally well with mDNS in a zero-configuration environment.
This file lists databases (such as passwd, shadow and group), and one or more sources for obtaining that information. Examples for sources are files for local files, ldap for the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, nis for the Network Information Service, nisplus for NIS+, dns for the Domain Name System (DNS), and wins for Windows Internet ...