A user was having trouble connecting to the internet, some sites worked some sites did not. I do not think it has anything to do with networking gear, but just in case. 2 firewall, Palo-Alto 4 Cisco Nexus 55XXT Switch We did not make any network changes since last week about 10 days ago and … Read more
This question already has answers here: Top level domain/domain suffix for private network? (9 answers) Closed 8 years ago. Is it okay to use app.mycoolname.local for URLs that are private / internal? We have several applications that are web based, but they are private apps and are not exposed to the public. We have been … Read more
I have a sad network left behind by some careless administrators – I am in the process of figuring out exactly what services are running where, not excluding the possibility that some services are running from two places at once, which is tons of fun. There are two Windows Server 2003 servers, one Windows Server … Read more
What is the difference between /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf? Also, is there a good documentation that explain all these configuration files. Thank you. Bala Answer resolv.conf specifies the nameservers for resolver lookups, where it will actually use the DNS protocol for resolving the hostnames. Typically the hosts file is used for administrative purposes, such as backend … Read more
