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How does Router know where to forward packet

If several computers with local addresses (192.168.0.#) are connected to a router and each computer opens a web browser and requests a page over HTTP, when these TCP:80 packets are sent out, the router switches the local address with the static IP…
Kornelije Petak
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Is it possible to SCP from a remote to local whilst logged into the remote and without knowing the local's IP address?

I regularly find myself wanting to copy a file from remote terminal session to my local machine. Usually I log out of the remote session and call an scp transfer from local to copy the file from remote to local. But this feels a little long winded.…
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How to choose a sensible local domain name for a home network?

Is there any convention on possible naming for local domain names (like .local), apart from not using any possible or existing top-level domain? Wikipedia says that .local conflicts with zeroconf .localhost is reserved, but is traditionally…
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What is the difference between a link local address and an IP address in the private address space?

I read that a link local address is used when no other method for acquiring one is found. But the address space for them doesn't seem to be reserved under private address space, what is the difference between a link local address verses, one that…
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Howto disable SSH local port forwarding?

I have a server running Ubuntu and the OpenSSH daemon. Let's call it S1. I use this server from client machines (let's call one of them C1) to do an SSH reverse tunnel by using remote port forwarding, eg : ssh -R 1234:localhost:23 login@S1 On S1,…
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how to install tmux locally without root access?

I wanted to install tmux in a redhat 6 machine using yum, however this fails as I don't have root access. Any idea on how to install tmux locally without root access?
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How do I install userscript from the local machine with GreaseMonkey 1.12 (2013 autumn)?

I use Greasemonkey 1.12 with Firefox 24. I have an userscript file on my computer. I cannot find the way to install my already written userscript from my local machine - how it is done? There used to be some custom userscript window. Now it's…
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Dropbox alternative with local sync support?

I am currently using Dropbox. Just decided to sync my huge (about 5 GB) iTunes Library (music collection) in Dropbox. For that I must subscribe to their paid account. But before I do so, I'd like evaluate the alternatives. Is there an alternative…
Sridhar Ratnakumar
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"bind" DNS server and considering "/etc/hosts"

in my LAN I use a small machine as server/gateway (with Ubuntu 10.04). On this server runs bind9 DNS server and all LAN clients are using it as unique DNS. Everything works ok, except that I'd like to find a method to consider server's /etc/hosts…
Fabio
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Complete backup of online email account w/ easy future offline access?

I have an old school email account that is expiring in a couple of months, which supports IMAP and POP3. I would like to make a complete offline backup of all my email in that account, ideally with easy offline access to it in the future (i.e. are…
hpy
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sync Nevernote (Evernote clone) notes to my own server

Supposedly, it used to be possible to sync Evernote notes to your own server. I would like to use the open source clone NeverNote, to sychronize to my own server. Is there a way of doing this? Here is another person asking the a similar question in…
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Windows 10 file sharing on local wifi is horribly slow

When sharing a file/folder in Windows 10, the connection is horribly slow. What I am trying to do is to share a folder on one computer, and access that folder and the files within from another computer on the same WiFi network. More precisely, the…
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Is it possible to block local mouse and keyboard input when using Teamviewr?

I'm using Teamviewer every day to help a distant relative with their computer problems. I need to be able to prevent MY OWN mouse input from interfering with Teamviewer when I accidentally mouse over or type on the Teamviewer window, but so far I…
Eric Fortier
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Trying to use BIND on macos lion to set up .local TLD and am hopelessly lost

I am trying to achieve what has basically been asked in this question: https://superuser.com/questions/403662/bind-dns-settings-on-mac-os-x-lion-errors-in-zone-file e.g. I need to set up a TLD of .local (or whatever) so that I can bind virtualhosts…
frumbert
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Domain user not having admin rights on local machine

I'm using Windows 2003 server as active directory and Windows 7 as a station. I need to have a regular domain user have admin rights on local machine. I added domain user to local admin group but they still do not have full access as local…
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