Questions tagged [networking]
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Why is IPv6 not backward compatible with IPv4?
Also, how does it affect our websites? Do we need to shift all IPv4 websites to IPv6 or both?
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Could a specific website be blocked or throttled for all users by Verizon
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The issue was in fact a Verizon "routing" issue. I reached out to Verizon and was given the go around, so I contacted my host who did some testing. We used Nord VPN to mask the ...
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About cdn architecture to route way
Our web system, use the third-party cdn service.
Assume that the user set the local dns with the googledns or opendns to visit our web sites, so cdn service will select the closest cdn proxy node. ...
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Our Website is being blocked in critical areas - how do I get to the bottom of this?
I'm working with a UK-based contractor in the counter-terrorism industry. I've noticed that when I'm in Virginia Beach (near Norfolk and Washington DC), I cannot get a connection to the website ...
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How to monitor a website's networking activity towards 3rd party servers?
I have a Wordpress site with some plug-ins installed. I would like to check if my site tries to access any 3rd party servers in the background.
I'm aware of that I can open any php file on my server ...
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What is the range of IPs that someone with a dynamic IP address can be assigned?
I am working on a security policy and I'm wondering about users who have a dynamic IP address. If their IP address changes frequently, will their ISP reassign them IPs from a limited pool of IPs?
i.e....
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Why do webhosts make you explicitly add which IP addresses can remotely connect to their MySQL databases?
In order to connect to a MySQL database, you typically use the following command:
mysql -h host_address database_name -u db_user -p
where db_user is associated with the database in question. However,...
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Three-month freeze on domain transfers?
I am planning on hosting a web app on Google App Engine. I am planning on buying the domain from GoDaddy. Will I have to wait 3 months before I can transfer the domain from GoDaddy to GAE (or at least ...
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Do I have to create a DNS server when setting up a network?
I studied a bit of networking in my class a few years ago. But I always had some doubts about this and never got it clear.
We set up Windows Server and Ubuntu HTTP servers, DNS servers using apache ...
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How do I validate IP Address ownership for authentication?
I have a website where digital content is behind a paywall. We verify users have access by IP address. Our customers are all large companies, with static IP addresses. So, if a user is within the ...
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What is the easiest way to build a private website network based on Linkedin profiles?
What is the easiest way to build a private website network based on Linkedin profiles? Are there any pre-built softwares/webapps that can do this? Would appreciate if someone can point me in the right ...
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How to add a domain to my website which is hosted in Ubuntu VPS?
I bought a domain from Bluehost and added A record pointing to my VPS IP at my domain registrar. I don't know what is virtual host? and how to configure it? and why should we configure it?
I am Junior ...
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How to match the email addresss with social media profile? [closed]
I am willing to attempt a methodology that will help me to correlate an email addresses to the social media profiles.
I have tried to find out way through which it will be comfortable and faster to ...
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Is there any risk to a network if it allows FTP access to third party websites? [closed]
I was not able to FTP access to my website on my college's network. (The college has a cyberoam-firewalled newtork). It would fail at point when directory listing would show up othewise. I later ...
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Visitors download files in the same order every time - am I being hacked?
I'm running a website for a while and I'm still learning how to manage it. One thing I've noticed is that some visitors download all zip files in the same order ( there is a pattern of downloads). I'...
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Why does typing in my site's IP address bring up a different site?
I do not understand how domains are connected to IP addresses. I have a certain domain e.g. example.com. I run ping example.com and get its IP address from DNS query.
When I type this IP in address ...
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WordPress /wp-content in a higher internet speed/higher latency datacenter
Can I speed up WordPress site loading by moving the /wp-folder (containing themes, plugin files, images) to another server with higher latency but also a much faster connection?
Example: host website ...
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How to tell if a website is using rewrite or redirect?
If I go to google.com in my browser, it automatically loads the https site.
When I do curl http://www.google.com, if it were doing a redirect, then I'd expect to see a 301 message. But instead, it ...
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At night server responds with 324 status (but it works in daytime and always over HTTPS)
I have a CPanel server with 5 IPs and a few domains.
During night, access to main domain through HTTP return 324 no response many times. After several refresh it comes but many assets won't load and ...
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Use their own SSL certificate for domains when DNS routing is applied
On my VPS server with cPanel/WHM, I have 2 accounts: domain1 and domain2.
Each of these domains are the main domains for their accounts. Meaning that domain1 has other alias domains as well, and ...
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Apache not accessible from outside local network
I can only connect to my Apache server using devices on the local network and not from the outside.
I think that this is a port forwarding issue, as I'm getting a Connection Timed Out for the port ...
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How can +2 websites benefit in a partnership aside from backlink exchange?
Website owners with the same target but different services can help each other grow. Are there methods other than linking to each other that could produce SEO benefits?
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Transfer domains without disrupting local email server
Perhaps I am thinking about this wrong, but maybe some of you guys can help me on this one.
I have a client who currently has a domain from Network Solutions and is hosted via GoDaddy. Additionally, ...
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I change everything but again Instagram knows it's me [closed]
I change my device, my public dynamic IP address, account, username, password, email, browser, app, cookies and everything and again Instagram knows it's me, and my question was do you know that can ...
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Web hosting at Hostingdude.com - Configuring Zone File Record
I registered an offsite Domain name 'pprs.org.pk' almost few weeks ago and added it to my account via 'add off-site DNS'.
I followed the 'Add Off-Site DNS' guide available in 'Help Center' section ...
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Youtube embed is blocked by corporate network, how to detect and offer an alternate self hosted version?
I have a youtube video embedded in a popup window, which works fine, but for some users within my network Youtube is blocked. What is the simplest method to offer them an alternate self hosted version ...
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Waiting for googleads.g.doubleclick.net
When I load my pages, I see the ads are not showing up and there is this message at the bottom of Chrome saying that the browser is waiting for googleads.g.doubleclick.net. How can I speed this up so ...
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Incorrect access detected, this server may be accessed only through "http://localhost/moodle" address, sorry. Please notify server administrator.
I tried this question then after i cannot access from localhost.
is there any solution so that i can use both ways
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Get ping between countries? [closed]
I need to get ping address between two countries, when I located in third place. Which service do you suggest to decide this task?
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Accessing website from within the LAN via web address
I run a small website at my house; just started it up the other day running Wordpress. The problem I'm facing is fairly obvious: I need to access my website, but I can't use the URL due my hosting on ...
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Is there a way to keep my local IP the same? [closed]
Every time I restart my Laptop it changes my LOCAL IP from 192.168.1.102 to 192.168.1.105 or some other random number.
Is there a option for it to recognize my MAC and keep my local IP the same, I ...
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More information about worldwide nodes how to get?
The context:
Six hosts across worldwide were traced over week from UK. Ten thousands of lines to be parsed and analysed.
And then I try to find any clue of geographical information and path - from ...
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How to diagnose one user not able to reach my site?
My site is www.trainerroad.com and lives on Azure.
I have a customer who get's
Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to www.trainerroad.com
When trying to access our website. Yesterday they ...
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Soft links over the Web?
Take this scenario. There is a server(say, A) at www.mysite.com .Now, there's a dynamic number of servers A knows about (knows the IP-adresses to).
The problem is, if a user arrives at http://www....
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How to Create a DynuDNS Subdomain Pointing to an Aternos Server?
I’m currently managing a Minecraft server hosted on Aternos, and I would like to create a subdomain using DynuDNS that points directly to my Aternos server.I don’t have a lot of experience with DNS ...
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Cloudflare times out when displaying pages with CSS/JS
Update (8/22/2024): I've tried setting up Nginx to solve this but it also faces the same issue. In addition the people who've replied both here and on Reddit both tell me this is a Cloudflare issue. ...
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Meilisearch: Self-hosted cloud deployment network connection stalling
I'm trying to work with self-hosted Meilisearch deployed on Openshift but it seems to be searching very slowly. I plan to increase the available resources but I don't think that is the main issue as ...
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How to achieve a git pull from a CGNAT?
I imagine my scenario to be reasonably common, so I am wondering if there is a method to achieve it.
I perform development on my local machine, which is either connected to the internet over my home ...
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rsync transfer speed: same country vs other country
Does proximity of one server to another affect the overall transfer speed on a large number of small files?
Say I have a server with a million small files in Germany, would it be considerably faster ...
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