Perlbal is a Perl-based reverse proxy load balancer and a web server which can server millions of requests a day. Perlbal is a single-threaded event-based server supporting HTTP load balancing and web serving. (more…)
Tag: Linux
Pound – Light weight Reverse Proxy and Load Balancer
Pound is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it natively. Pound is distributed under the GPL license. (more…)
FireKeeper – An Intrusion Detection and Prevention System for Firefox
Firekeeper is an Intrusion Detection and Prevention System for Firefox. It is able to detect, block and warn the user about malicious sites.
Firecat 1.2 – Firefox Catalog of Audit Extensions
Most of us would have thought of and used Firefox only as a browser. But, do you know it can well act as a Security application? That is all about FireCAT.
FireCAT is a Firefox Framework Map collection of the most useful security oriented extensions. It now has 60 extensions.
IPAudit – Network activity monitor with a Web interface
IPAudit is a free network monitoring program. IPAudit monitors network activity on a network by host, protocol and port.
netstat – TCP connections and IP statistics tool in windows
netstat is one of the most commonly used tool in Windows and UNIX & Linux operating systems to troubleshoot TCP/IP connections. Netstat displays active TCP connections, ports on which the computer is listening, Ethernet statistics, the IP routing table, IPv4 statistics (for the IP, ICMP, TCP, and UDP protocols), and IPv6 statistics (for the IPv6, ICMPv6, TCP over IPv6, and UDP over IPv6 protocols). Used without parameters, netstat displays active TCP connections. (more…)
hostname – Name of your computer
Use the hostname command in Windows and in most Unix and Linux versions to get the actual hostname of the system. In Windows, from the command prompt simply type,
c:\>hostname MYCOMPUTER
In Linux or unix, from the terminal window type hostname,
mycomputer$ hostname
This should show the computer name.