DNS TCP/IP commands from command prompt

IP address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, DNS and WINS addresses
What do you use to configure these things? There are various applications or utilities also available to configure TCP/IP settings and many other options.
But you can also achieve all this through command prompt! Isn't it fantastic? Many of you might be familiar with ping, tracert and ipconfig commands available in windows xp. Let us see which other commands you can use from command prompt.
With the help of these commands you can view or modify the network configuration settings of a computer that is currently running.

To get the command prompt...
Press 'WinKey + R' type CMD [ENTER]
• ping webgk.com - Test Connectivity
• tracert - Trace IP address Route
• netstat - Displays the TCP/IP protocol sessions
• route - Display Local Route
• arp - Display Resolved MAC Addresses
• hostname - Display Computer Name
• netsetup.cpl - Network Setup Wizard
• control netconnections - Network Connections
• ipconfig /all - Connection Configuration
• ipconfig /displaydns - Display DNS Cache Info
• ipconfig /flushdns - Clear DNS Cache
• ipconfig /release - Release All IP Address Connections
• ipconfig /renew - Renew All IP Address Connections
• ipconfig /registerdns - ReRegister the DNS connections
• ipconfig /showclassid - Display DHCP Class Information
• ipconfig /setclassid - Change/Modify DHCP Class ID

Knowledge of DNS, gateway and subnet mask is helpful while resolving network issues. The following questions provides you a short description of...

What is DNS?
Domain Name Service (DNS) numbers are IP addresses that a web server uses to refer to specific servers that resolve domain names to IP addresses.

What is a GateWay?
A gateway IP refers to a device on a network which sends local network traffic to other networks. In the technical language it is a hardware device or software application set up that translates between two dissimilar protocols.

What is Subnet Mask?
The subnet mask number helps to identify the relationship between the host (computers, routers, switches, etc.) and the rest of the workgroup or network. For the purpose of security and performance a subnet mask divides IP networks into two different parts.

How to improve hard disk speed or performance?

Improve Hard Disk performance in just 5 easy steps!

Do you feel sometime your PC's hard disk takes too much time to deliver the desired results? If yes then this hard disk speed improvement tweak is just for you. To perform this tweak, make sure your PC has at least 256Mb of Ram.

Don’t Worry! These are very simple steps which won't do any harm to your PC and that’s for sure. If you don't find any improvements in the hard drive performance after performing this tweak, then in that case, you can always go back to original settings.

Now to improve the hard disk speed, configure a special buffer in the computer's memory. With that it will be able to deal with interrupts in a faster and better way to get the results in a timely manner. How to do that?

Here are those 5 easy steps...

1. In the Run command, type SYSEDIT.EXE and hit 'enter key'
2. Open the system.ini file [close other files]
3. Find a section called [386enh], usually at the end of file
4. Type this without quotes 'Irq14=4096' after this line as it is
5. From File menu select 'Save'

You are done with the tweak, now close SYSEDIT and reboot the PC. You will be able to see the improvement in speed as soon as your computer gets restarted.

This tweak works for any kind of IDE SCSI disk.

Master password in firefox - Remember password option?

Master password in FireFox - How secured is the password manager option?

Is it too hectic for you to remember each password for every site you visit?
Firefox's integrated password manager is far more convenient, but is it secured?

Lets have a look - Open up firefox, click on Tools > Options > Security > Passwords
If you click on "Show Passwords > Show Passwords", voilla! it shows all your secrets! Not to worry, now you are going to secure all your passwords in next few simple steps.

A Master Password option in Mozilla firefox browser protects your stored passwords. You can store all webmail, forum account information, various registered networking sites, e-mail server passwords. By using Master Password option, your profile will be asked to enter the Master Password when access is needed to your stored passwords. Now with this option no one can get access to your stored passwords without having Master Password.

Only browing history, email stored in local drive and alredy logged in sites can be accessed without using punching a Master Password. Make sure to remove those passwords, which were stored before turning on the Master Password option.

How to set a master password in Firefox?

Click on the menu - Tools > Options > Security > Passwords

Check both options - 'Remember passwords for site' and 'Use a Master password'

While chosing a Master password use a combination of random numbers, letters and some special characters like @ # $ etc. For example: "Pa$$w0rd" [don't use it, it's just an example] Make sure you remember the Master password. If you lose master password, you will not be able to recover your stored passwords by any means, so be careful while chosing the Master password.

Now you and all your stored passwords are protected and safe. No one can steal them, they belongs to their Master only. And that's you!

How to get blog indexed by search engines?

How long does it take to get your blog indexed by major search engines like - Google, Yahoo, MSN?

Almost all major search engines automatically index blogs, when they come accross a link to blog while crawling the web. Some good forums related to your blog subject would also help. Simply place a link directing to your blog in your forum signature.

The best way that followed by almost every blogger is to submit your site feed to some niche blog directories. Such as - Technorati, Bloggernity, Blogcatalog, Feedster and other blog-specific search engines. They have different indexing methods and techniques.

Also, if you are using Blogger, make sure your blog settings are setup to 'PING' the weblog update service. There are spiders always hungry for new content.

How do I submit my blog to google yahoo msn search engines?

Submit blog to Google, Yahoo, MSN

The fact is, you don't need too, they will find your blog through inboud links. However, if you want to make sure a particular search engine must index your blog then manual submission will be a good idea. Make sure you don't overdo it. If within couple of weeks your blog doesn't get indexed [that's in rare case] submit your blog once more.

Below are the free submission URLs of some major search engines:

Submit blog to Google

Submit blog to Yahoo

Submit blog to MSN