Are you using Open-DNS?

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

You should be using Open-DNS, if you answer yes to one of the following:

Are you frustrated with crazy-long wait times before even the website url shows up?
Is your ISP is a cheapo-*#$% using a crappy machine for DNS, and you wait enough to count the seconds between pressing enter and the little thingy on the browser status bar says “done”?
Are you subject to phishing attacks?
Do you want peace of mind?
Do you want auto-correction of urls?
Want to block your teen from accessing “excessive” porn?
Do you need a new dog to carry you paper?

OpenDNS is for you (well, for the dog, you’ll have to move your ass and get one yourself). It is quite trivial to setup and really speeds up your browsing speed. You can can set it up for each computer that you use, or better still, change the configuration on your router, which would apply across all machine connected through that router.

SNMP tutorials

Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0000

SNMP being the bread and butter for me, I decided to dig up some tutorials and links regarding the same.
For the uninitiated, SNMP is short for Simple Network Management Protocol, and is a protocol used to manage network devices such as routers, switches etc.

Simple Web - Introduction to SNMP, and good set of tutorials
Simple Times - technical articles and featured columns
Cisco - SNMP Overview
Cisco - whitepaper
SnmpLink - Links to almost every possible SNMP resource

Networking on Shivanand Velmurugan — Product leader. Systems thinker.

Are you using Open-DNS?

SNMP tutorials