Tag: IP

In times of a shortage, people tend to stockpile certain things. And with the looming exhaustion of IPv4 addresses, it's really no surprise that Microsoft jumped all over Nortel's stash of nearly 700,000 addresses when they became available for purchase. Nortel, of course, has been selling off what assets it can as the company battles through bankruptcy proceedings. Microsoft ponied up $7.5 ...

When I wanted to write a post about WhatIsMyIP, the first thought that came to mind was about the commenters. I read all of your comments (thanks for your kind and useful ones!), and there are always those readers who are looking for the bleeding-edge stuff, and are disappointed when I write about things "everybody knows". Well guys, this one's not for you – sorry! For those of you who ...

Google's all about speeding up the web these days, and a recent 20% project has led to a very useful Domain Name Server benchmarking tool called NameBench. DNS servers are directories that your computer uses to look up the IP address of a site when you type in or click on a link for a domain name. The time it takes your DNS server to return the IP address your computer should access appreciably ...

One of the only features some of us here like about Windows is that you can alt-ctrl-del and look at the open tasks and programs running at any given time. It's nice to know what's sucking up all of your memory (pr0n) and what's bogging down your processor (DVD burning). Sloth for Mac OS X shows us exactly what's running, Windows style. You can see which application is running which process, ...

Seems like the big guys could be getting in a little trouble for violating patents. Among them, AOL, Amazon, Borders, Google, IAC (ASK), and Yahoo have all been accused. The charges from this IP-related company that stem from a patent infringement make notes about the violating parties implementing systems that 'comprise interpreting electronic messages with rule base and case base knowledge ...

IP scanning is something that conjures up thoughts of nefarious hackers trying to find a vulnerable point on a network, but there are also totally legitimate reasons to do it. For example, you might find yourself dealing with a network that uses dynamic IP addresses, yet you need to remotely connect to a specific computer with VNC, or some other such remoting software. Angry IP Scanner can make ...

So far, there is no IP routing in space. That's scheduled to change with the impending launch of the Department of Defense's Internet Routing in Space (IRIS) project. Once in orbit, the first IRIS satellite will act like a router, feeding packets to other satellites and essentially creating the first permanent IP network in space. Limited ability to address orbiting birds has existed since the ...

Hopefully when 2006 is over in a couple weeks people will stop putting the word "Ajax" in their web apps' names. I love the things Ajax makes possible, but as a marketing tool it's no longer useful, folks. Regardless, Ajax DNS is a pretty handy tool. If you enter an IP address or hostname it will do a DNS lookup, WHOIS lookup, ARIN IP lookup, HTTP header check, spam blacklist check, ping, or DNS ...