Domain Name Servers (DNS) bind the internet together. They match machine-usable IPv4 and IPv6 addresses with human-readable domain names. It's the internet's equivalent of the phone book. But, while ...

Newcomers to Linux, especially those coming from a Windows background, often find files in the /etc directory to be difficult to understand. In this article, I provide a brief explanation of some of ...

Changing the IP address on a Linux system involves both changing the IP address using the ifconfig command and modifying the files that will make your change permanent. The process is very similar to ...

One of the files that the average Unix sysadmin rarely looks at, almost never changes and yet depends on every time he or she reboots a system is the /etc/inittab file. This modest little file ...

How to configure Ubuntu Linux server as a Domain Controller with samba-tool Your email has been sent If you'd like to set up a domain controller on the cheap, Samba makes this possible. Here's how.

Hi just had a quick question. I'm running gnome as my GUI. When I login I get a message telling me that my /etc/hosts file can not find my ip address for my machine (or something like that). The GUI ...