Articles in the Server Category
Posted in Security, Server on 17 July 2008
Multiple DNS implementations vulnerable to cache poisoning
Overview
Deficiencies in the DNS protocol and common DNS implementations facilitate DNS cache poisoning attacks.
I. Description
The Domain Name System (DNS) is responsible for translating host names to IP addresses (and vice versa) and is critical for the normal operation of internet-connected systems. DNS cache poisoning (sometimes referred to as [...]
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Posted in Server on 17 July 2008
The DNS server at IP address 202.188.0.132 is susceptible to a DNS cache poisoning attack. The server is not changing its source port, query id, or both, between queries. This means it is easier than average for an attacker to spoof responses to DNS queries from this server, causing the server to serve a potentially [...]
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Posted in It news, Server on 1 July 2008
Traditional Open-Xchange Offering Now Packs Same User Interface and Architecture as Popular Hosted Edition
TARRYTOWN, N.Y., July 1, 2008 – Open-Xchange Inc., the leading provider of open source groupware, today announced a preview to the new version of Open-Xchange Server Edition, which facilitates effective teamwork and enables document sharing anywhere, anytime, with any device.
Open-Xchange offers email, [...]
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Posted in Products, Server on 26 March 2008
Purplenova is a leader in providing innovative solutions for secure desktop content hosting. Traditional Web Servers are difficult (and sometimes impossible) to set up on home and office PCs. Secondly, commonly used techniques for making desktop content web-accessible, such as VPNs or Web-conferencing solutions do not lend themselves to Web 2.0 environments, where a simple [...]
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Posted in Server on 10 February 2008
When people hear or read the word “proxy” their minds start to wander and the look on their faces change, may consider such words to be too geeky to enter the common language, the fact is that the word is not self explanatory that’s why it is necessary to explain the meaning and functions [...]
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Posted in Server, articles on 6 February 2008
High availability is a system design protocol and associated implementation that ensures a certain absolute degree of operational continuity during a given measurement period.
Availability refers to the ability of the user community to access the system, whether to submit new work, update or alter existing work, or collect the results of previous work. If a [...]
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Posted in Server on 22 January 2008
There is a lot of buzz going around about Virtualization. What is Virtualization, and what benefits does it provide? In this article we will take a look at the technology to see how it can provide a great deal of flexibility and cost effectiveness for IT professionals and software developers.
Virtualization technology allows multiple virtual machines [...]
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Posted in Server on 22 January 2008
Xserve is the name of Apple Computer’s Macintosh 1U rackmount line of server computers.
While Apple’s first foray into the server market in 1997 was a spectacular failure by way of Network Servers that ran AIX 4, the introduction of OS X in 2000 and the later rollout of the G5 PowerPC processor from IBM present [...]
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Posted in Server on 22 January 2008
Load balancing is the even distribution of computer processing and communication activities so that a server is not overwhelmed. Load balancing is especially important for networks where it is difficult to predict the number of requests that will be issued to a server.
Busy Web sites typically employ two or more Web servers in a load-balancing [...]
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Posted in Server on 22 January 2008
Just like the conductor in a musical orchestra, a Server (in information technology parlance) refers to a mother computer or master software that intelligently and seamlessly provides a host of services by controlling the access to data or physical resources residing in it to other programs / computers / network of computers, which connect to [...]
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