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11.26.08

Fedora 10 Released Linux | (0)
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06.24.08

Writing a DNS sniffer Information Security, Internet, Linux, Programming, ideas | (0)
Programming project: construct a program that can listen to perimeter traffic and construct http proxy-like logs. The weapon of choice? libpcap! The app will need to listen for both DNS (udp port 53) and HTTP (tcp port 80) traffic to accomplish this. First up is determining where all the interesting bits in each layer of the OSI stack are located within each packet. In logical order: Ethernet Headers & Packet Structure IP Headers & Packet Structure UDP Headers & Packet Structure DNS Records and DNS Headers (about half way down) With all that reference material, you might think this is a lot of reading! Okay, fine ...
05.13.08

Fedora 9 Review (Mini-Edition) Linux | (2)
Updated 5.15.08 7:30PDT - Thanks AnotherBrick It's here!!! Fedora 9 is the latest release from the Fedora Project team, released today, May 13th 2008. Sulfur sports yet another slew of new and exciting features, as well as some big package updates. I'd like to highlight some of the new packages I care about and give an initial opinion on each. New Stuff GNOME 2.22 is included. (Evolution 2.22.1 along with IMAP for Gmail, it also supports read/write Google Calendar integration!) KDE 4.0.4, which has been completely migrated to the default kde install (no ...

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