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How to find a domain based on the IP address?

We were contacted by our ISP saying that one of our servers was issuing an attack on another computer. May 23 14:11:35 wdc lfd[14308]: *Port Scan* detected from ***.***.***.*** (US/United States/-). 11 hits in the last 245 seconds - *Blocked in csf*…
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How to make my IP publicly accessible to make my local Tomcat server public?

I'm working on my desktop computer. On this machine I also run Tomcat for my Java development so that I can visit my local address: http://192.168.1.1:8080/myapp Now I go to whatsmyip.com and get my IP lets say it is: 119.56.1.78 Now what I want…
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Would you setup a DMZ at home?

From a security point of view, what are the benefits of going the whole hog of setting up a DMZ at home if you plan on running a low traffic (unpopular) website from there? There are a number of computers in the home on the same Windows network, but…
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Resolve email delivery issue on "From and EnvelopeFrom 2nd level mail domains are different". Is this a hosting provider issue?

We send email from our main domain "vocalsound.org". It is delivered through our hosting provider, which however sends it through a shared mailserver hosted on their generic domain (webland.ch). This is getting to be a problem, since "From and…
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How can I make my home PC a web server?

I am running Apache Tomcat on my PC. My PC is connected to a router in my house and the router is connected to my ISP. Now I want to run a server on my PC so that my friend can view my site hosted on my PC. If I go to the site https://whatismyip.com…
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Hosting online with xampp?

I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong, because from what I've read, this should all be working. What I've done: Forwarded ports 80, 8080, and 443. Changed the ServerName localhost:80 line in \apache\conf\httpd.conf to ServerName…
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Staying anonymous while hosting your site?

I don't mean anonymous surfing. I mean hosting and having your own domain and such. The reason is that my blog is about religious/political topics which may cause me trouble in the future. This is the domain I am working on: www.james-croft.com I…
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How do I serve a torrent from my web server?

I have some files that I have the legal right to distribute (I made them), and I want to give people the option to get them via bittorrent. Following instructions I've read, I've used the program Transmission to create a .torrent file, and when I…
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How can I test if a server supports byte serving?

I have some mp3 files hosted on a server on a shared hosting account and I have trouble submitting my podcast feed to the iTunes store. Apple rejects the feed, because they say my episode files are hosted on a server that do not support byte ranges…
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Github says Pages shouldn't be used for sending passwords or credit card information. Why?

They say: GitHub Pages sites shouldn't be used for sensitive transactions like sending passwords or credit card numbers. This, even though they officially support HTTPS. See this scenario: I'm hosting static website on Github, with HTTPS…
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Is it possible to host your own website without a static ip address?

If I set up a DNS server with BIND, does that effect this scenario ? (I'm under the impression that it does) Again I'm under the impression that If I set up a DNS server then I can put up an apache and will be able to go to chrome and type blah.com…
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Installing Wordpress in Apache

So, I've installed Wordpress in Apache and have it working, i.e. I can browse to it on my hosting server via localhost and it displays my blog, all good and well. But when (anyone) browses to it from outside my network, i.e. via my WAN IP (nat'ed to…
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Receiving and processing SMS messages through a script?

I am attempting to setup a system to receive and process SMS messages automatically. The system is intended for use in a context (an unfunded migrant workers' union in India) where both finances and sysadmin skills are extremely constrained (I…
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How to find out domain's email provider

I need to find out what provider is providing emails for a domain (like emailacct@companyname.org). I know I can find the provider for hosting a domain but how can I find out about emails for a domain?
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How to display a mailbox as browsable website?

We have a company-wide mailing list that aggregates all its messages in one IMAP/POP3 mailbox. Now we would like to make the contents of this mailbox browsable as an internal website. The goal is to be able to refer back to some older discussion…
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