I'm considering moving a number of small client sites to an unmanaged VPS hosting provider. I haven't decided which one yet, but my understanding is that they'll give me a base OS install (I'd prefer Debian or Ubuntu), an IP address, a root account, SSH, and that's about it. Ideally, I would like to create a complete VM image of my conf...
How do I perform a reverse DNS lookup, that is how do I resolve an IP address to its DNS hostname in Perl? ...
When developing an application that sends out notification email messages, what are the best practices for not getting flagged as a spammer by your hosting company. (Cover any of:) best technique for not flooding a mail server best mail server products, if you were to set up your own sending messages as if from a specific user but s...
I am looking for a reliable service that has a good database of the hosting providers vs domain names. I guess some of the domains that are privately hosted cannot be resolved to a definite hosting provider (maybe just to ISP). I have used webhosting.info (their power whois and advanced whois) which used to give hosting information(no...
I need to get a reverse DNS entry into my zones file for one of my domains hosted under Plesk 9.2.2. Does anybody have ANY idea how this done? If all else fails I will have to update the zones file myself, but I am not sure how that will affect the front end working. ...
How long should I expect a reverse lookup take? 100 milliseconds? 1 second? 10 second? 30 seconds? What's your experience? Why? We're debating adding a feature to our server software which would require a reverse DNS lookup each time a client connects. The lookup would be done synchronously, so I'm worried that it could slow conn...
Is there a way to display the reverse DNS entry for someone visiting your page using only JavaScript? Or is the only way to do an AJAX request to a server that can do it? ...
Hi there! I have a DNS script which allow users to resolve DNS names by typing website names on a Windows command prompt. I have looked through several guides on the DNS resolve but my script can't still seem to resolve the names (www.google.com) or (google.com) to IP address. The script outputs an error of Traceback (most recent cal...