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 ...

Computers that connect to a TCP/IP network such as the Internet are assigned an IP address, a label consisting of 32-bits and represented in dotted-decimal notation, such as 192.168.0.1. PCs also have ...

So I have a QNAP NAS that's sharing a couple of folders via SMB. In Windows, if I go to \\<ip address> in explorer, open the shared folder and pull a 7 GB file to my local drive, I get about 50 MB/s ...

Websites such as Google, Facebook and Twitter have both a hostname and an Internet protocol address. A hostname is the alphanumeric label assigned to a domain, such as Google.com or Twitter.com; an IP ...

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 ...

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 ...

Private IP addresses help routers route data to specific devices on a network. Private IP is like the address of your home inside a gated colony, while public IP is of the colony. Finding your private ...

Tech Tip: Use Ping to return the host name of a computer Your email has been sent The Ping.exe utility is often one of the first command-line utilities admins turn to when troubleshooting Windows 9x ...