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December
2002 Volume 11 Number 12
Features
Maintaining DNS Sanity with Hawk
Greg Heim
Heim describes Hawk, GPL software that can help track which hosts in DNS are
really on your network as well as which hosts are on your network but not in DNS.
sockspy Knows TCP/IP Cameron Laird
Laird explains when to use and not use sockspy and shows how you can quickly
try out sockspy for yourself.
db_update Controlling UNIX Enterprise Database Releases
Ed Schaefer
Schaefer presents a Korn shell template, db_update, for controlling enterprise
database changes.
TCP/IP Networking in Gawk 3.1.0 Mike Warner
Warner presents two sets of client/server utilities in Gawk
a file transfer capability and a remote execution capability.
Remote Machine Monitoring with Marvin Alistair Young
Young describes a remote monitoring application called Marvin (written in Java
and object-oriented Perl) that can be used to inform administrators when Web servers
and proxy machines are unavailable.
Network Management with Overlapping IP Address Ranges Scott
Kirkwood
Kirkwood explains how to resolve problems caused by overlapping IP address
ranges.
Troubleshooting Network Performance with Alpine Jeffrey Papen
Papen shares a tool called Alpine that allows administrators to test available
networking options without changing router configurations or affecting live network
traffic.
qmail SMTP Authentication Using RADIUS Blair Rampling
Rampling shows how to set up a qmail SMTP server to use RADIUS authentication.
Columns
Questions and Answers
Amy Rich
File Systems Understanding the Internals
Henry Newman
Departments
Call for Papers
New Products
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