Block Advertisements in ANY Browser via /etc/hosts

Posted by suvi under Browser, Security

I have been getting more and more tired of Firefox lately. Tired of the bloat. The unreliability. The gecko engine. I’ve been tinkering with alternate browsers such as Midori (which is *great*, assuming you can get >=0.1.6), Arora and Chromium. I think WebKit is the browser engine of the future, and with these browsers it [...]

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How to use the dig command

Posted by suvi under Networking, Tricks

dig is a command-line tool for querying DNS name servers for information about host addresses, mail exchanges, name servers, and related information.
Understanding the default output
The most typical, simplest query is for a single host. By default, however, dig is pretty verbose. You probably don’t need all the information in
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Howto add 3 and 4 nameserver for DirectAdmin

Posted by suvi under Control Panels

I am using at my servers DirectAdmin control panel. So I have multiple servers and I want to share DNS information between servers, and also take to use all nameservers.
First I was one VPS in UK, where I set up ns1.rpthosting.com and ns2.rpthosting.com. Evrything works fine.
After that I rent a new VPS in US, and [...]

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