I typically use Amazon’s AWS EC2 cloud services which include Route53 for DNS however I have certain clients that prefer RackSpace and therefore require RackSpace Cloud DNS services. One of the primary reasons for not just using an external DNS service such as Amazon’s Route53 DNS service is because when you setup large cloud deployments…
Windows Virtual PC is pretty slick for having virtual machines on a Windows 7 computer. I use it for multiple Linux virtual environments including Backtrack and CentOS on a regular basis. One issue you may run into is that your wireless network card will likely not work in Linux so you will be required to…
I have been wanting to get the use of dig on Windows 7 for awhile but hadn’t taken the time to do so until now. The problem is nslookup is not as helpful in terms of TTL of zone files, etc. and while you can accomplish your tasks with nslookup using dig makes life much…
Earlier I was testing an issue with scanning to a Brother printer at the computer shop and needed to flush the DNS cache on my Windows 7 laptop after I made an entry on the local DNS server. Flushing the DNS cache on Windows 7 is easy using the command line from a Windows Command…