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What can be found out by person’s IP/host address?
I just discovered that my supposedly anonymous e-mail isn’t so anonymous after all. My IP and host name is sent with the headers. This information exposed, what can be found out? All sorts of things —...
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How do I Interpret a Failed Request Trace?
I have a problem with a web site running IIS 7. The problem are the initial requests to each page: they take far longer than they should. After that first request the page loads fine. I’m sure the...
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tracert TCP equivalent for Windows
I’m trying to determine where connectivity to an external host using a specific TCP port is being blocked. Tracert for Windows only uses ICMP, and telnet will only tell me that the port is blocked and...
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Is the sender’s IP address shown in the transport header on messages sent...
If someone sends an email from a gmail account, is it possible for me to trace the emailers IP address or does Google hide it? Looking at an email from y’day sent from Gmail I’m not seeing the...
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Is it possible to match an internal IP address to a switch port?
I’m trying to find a computer that has a certain IP address on our internal network. I have identified the computer name from DNS, but in this case it does not help me. Just wondering if I can somehow...
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What is the best windows tool to capture HTTP traffic?
When you want to capture browser traffic or general windows HTTP traffic what tool do you use? Fiddler, hands down! http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/ Check more discussion of this question.
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How can I find the answering DNS server?
Is there a way I can trace a DNS request to see where the answer is coming from? Our network has internal DNS servers that provide internal IP address resolution, and we use EasyDNS to host our...
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IIS ASP.Net Website – ManagedPipelineHandler
I am experiencing a strange issue. I have an ASP.Net web application that users Form Authentication. If I open the log-in page and there is a couple of minutes of inactivity, the log-in attempt times...
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What is stored in %Windir%\System32\LogFiles\WMI\RtBackup?
I occasionally notice in Resource Monitor hard disk activity related to ETL files in the folder C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles\WMI\RtBackup. Which process/service creates these ETL files and what is...
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How do I trace from my client PC what databases it connects to
I wonder if there is some way to trace what servers my program using OLEDB tries to connect to. Problem: I have a program displaying some reports made in Crystal Reports. The loading of some reports...
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