Archive for November, 2007

BackTrack 2.0 Notes

November 23rd, 2007

As we know Backtrack 2.0 is leading IT Security Auditing Toolset used by security and penetration specialists worldwide. This very usefull Linux distribution facilitates your auditing tasks dramatically. However, there are some settings or configurations necessary to run Backtrack 2.0 properly. This article contains some notes and tips to save your time while setting up this cool system features.
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TCP/IP: Network Classes

November 21st, 2007

The Internet protocol suite is the set of communications protocols that implement the protocol stack on which the Internet and most commercial networks run. It has also been referred to as the TCP/IP protocol suite, which is named after two of the most important protocols in it: the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), which were also the first two networking protocols defined. Class Ranges, Special Ranges and Bit-Wise Representation of TCP/IP Network Classes are stated here for quick reference purposes.
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Call to undefined function utf8_encode()

November 18th, 2007

PHP Fatal Error: Call to undefined function utf8_encode() error message balked me to run new installation of web software. Why and how to get rid of this error is described in this post.
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FTP Status Codes: Overview

November 17th, 2007

FTP is a file transfer protocol for exchanging files over any TCP/IP based network to manipulate files on another computer on that network regardless of which operating systems are involved (if the computers permit FTP access). There are many existing FTP client and server programs. FTP servers can be set up anywhere between game servers, voice servers, internet hosts, and other physical servers. This article presents Numeric Order List of FTP Reply Codes for quick reference purposes.
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FTP Status Codes: Introduction

November 16th, 2007

What are FTP status codes assemblied of, what are their meaning and other details of FTP service replies describes this post.
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Installing BackTrack 2.0 on VM

November 15th, 2007

BackTrack (previously SecurityAuditor) is without discussion one of the coolest and helpfull IT Security Auditing Toolset ever. This live linux distribution can be regularly installed on a harddrive but there are small detailes which are on other hand very important to successfully install version 2.0 of this system.
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HTTP/1.1 Status Codes: 505 HTTP Version Not Supported

November 12th, 2007

The server does not support, or refuses to support, the HTTP protocol version that was used in the request message.
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HTTP/1.1 Status Codes: 504 Gateway Timeout

November 11th, 2007

The server, while acting as a gateway or proxy, did not receive a timely response from the upstream server specified by the URI (e.g. HTTP, FTP, LDAP) or some other auxiliary server (e.g. DNS) it needed to access in attempting to complete the request.
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HTTP/1.1 Status Codes: 503 Service Unavailable

November 10th, 2007

The server is currently unable to handle the request due to a temporary overloading or maintenance of the server. The implication is that this is a temporary condition which will be alleviated after some delay.
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HTTP/1.1 Status Codes: 502 Bad Gateway

November 9th, 2007

The server, while acting as a gateway or proxy, received an invalid response from the upstream server it accessed in attempting to fulfill the request.
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