August 13, 2009
tracert,ping,hops,ttl,time to live exceeded,routers
Have you wondered how tracert actually works and what all the extra data means it reports back. When using the tracert utility, if you use a host name such as tracert microsoft.com the machine will do a dns lookup first to find the address. In the example below I did a tracert [...]
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May 5, 2009
The other day I noticed some peculiar behavior with Yahoo Instant Messenger. For some reason the client would fail to connect randomly, some mornings it would connect without a problem other days it would fail and fail only to eventually get connected. Further investigation revealed that if I went to command prompt and typed:
ipconfig /flushdns
This [...]
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January 27, 2009
Checkpoint,fw commands,checkpoint console commmands,connections,dropped sessions
With Checkpoint Firewalls, every now and again you have to get down and do some command line functions to get some information or something out of the system. Here are a couple of those commands I have had to use to get me out of a bind or two.
* All these [...]
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