Many companies and organizations host an FTP site, a mail server, and a Web server on the same machine. In such cases, the hostnames ftp.ripoff.org, mail.ripoff.org, and www.ripoff.org are usually ...

A hostname is a label assigned to a device (a host) on a network. It distinguishes one device from another on a specific network or over the internet. The hostname for a computer on a home network may ...

Ever wanted to just plug something in and conveniently read the hostname and IP addresses of a headless board like a Raspberry Pi? Chances are, a free USB port is more accessible than digging up a ...

How to find a hostname via public IP address? In order to find the hostname of a computer with a public IP address, you have to pass the address to the Domain Name System (DNS) server. Here are the ...

In this step-by-step guide from Jack Wallen, learn how to access and modify the Linux hosts file to control the mapping of hostnames to IP addresses. At some point in your career as a developer, ...

I have a CentOS VM running in VMWare player. The host is Windows Server 2008 R2. The hostname is rianjswiki. The FQDN is rianjswiki.<company>.net. The wiki is accessible via browser both via the short ...

We list the best IP address tools, to make it simple and easy to better manage networks. If you manage a large network of computers and other devices, you probably have many IP addresses to keep track ...

NetBIOS alone should not give you many headaches. Unfortunately, when NetBIOS problems occur they can be difficult to detect. Understanding how NetBIOS works is the key. One of the important steps in ...

The bash script described here can change Linux systems' IP addresses from dynamic to static with much less manual work. Changing the IP address of a Linux system from dynamic to static is not ...