Tuesday, August 12, 2008

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dnsmasq Dns Cache Software Security Update To Fix DNS Spoofing Attacks

Posted: 12 Aug 2008 05:55 AM CDT

Red Hat has shipped a new version of its dnsmasq caching software to plug source UDP port bug. This could have made DNS spoofing attacks (CVE-2008-1447) easier. Dnsmasq is lightweight ultra fast dns cache server forwarder and DHCP server. It is designed to provide DNS and, optionally, DHCP, to a small network.

Read more: dnsmasq Dns Cache Software Security Update To Fix DNS Spoofing Attacks


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How To Install Puppet System Management Tool To Automate Tasks Across The Network

Posted: 12 Aug 2008 05:20 AM CDT

Puppet is an open source configuration management tool. It is written in Ruby. This software is considered as an alternative to Cfengine configuration management system. I've used Cfengine for pushing configurations, applying patches and so on.

Read more: How To Install Puppet System Management Tool To Automate Tasks Across The Network


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Download Of The Day: gOS A Lightweight Linux Distribution (ISO Images)

Posted: 12 Aug 2008 04:54 AM CDT

gOS is a Linux distribution, which is often advertised as "An alternative OS with Google Apps and other Web 2.0 apps for the modern user". gOS is based on the Ubuntu distribution and a GUI largely imitative of Mac OS X Leopard.

Read more: Download Of The Day: gOS A Lightweight Linux Distribution (ISO Images)


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