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09/26/2008 NetWard Update

A new development/testing version of netward has been cut for anyone tracking and the handful of testers out there. A lot of the options have changed and a few oddball bugs were finally identified. Thanks go to Steve Dickinson for helping to identify some of the bugs. Some of the notable changes were:

While the options changed - they did not change too much. After compiling just type netward -u or refer to the manual page.

 netward-src · digest

09/08/2008 Site and Code Updates

New site design is up and running after one trial desgin that didn't go so well. The new design is somewhat busier but designed for faster access to a variety of information and pages. The digest entry about it has more information.

Along with the site change a lot of small code updates were done; mostly cosmetic in some of the smaller modules. The netward utility had a lot of patches to correct some bugs and validation testing:

All of the details can be found in the digest entry.

 Digests

09/01/2008 Reading Packets with libpcap Part 2

In the first part of the libpcap series a rudimentry packet reader (or sniffer) was built which could read and print tcp/ip traffic on a particular interface. In the second text a look at some simple checks of the data itself, adding options like interface selection, libpcap filter options and verbosity levels. Some of the checks included are:

The filter options are eventually passed exactly like tcpdump using the tcpdump argv vector copy.

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08/08/2008 NetWard 0.6 Released

The software utils called pksys have been integrated into a single utility called netward. The arguments were compressed into a more nmap-like syntax. Following are some of the changes :

The TODO list has grown a bit too:

Of course the usual disclaimer; none or all of the mentioneded changes may ever happen. As is, netward can run out of the box and detect minor errors like mismatched lengths and will score what it thinks might be scans or probes against a host. Suggestions, comments and bricks are all welcome; feel free to email me.

  netward-0.6 · Coding

07/07/2008 DNS Part 3: Primary/Secondary Servers & Misc. Topics

  In the third (last) installment of the DNS series a look at setting up and managing primary and secondary DNS servers for redundancy covering topics such as:

Additionally a look at some of the other options involved with server and zone maintenance.

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