
Saturday Link Roundup–mostly DNS + some Internet Explorer
Allow Google Cast to connect to Cast devices on all IP addresses … or my Microsoft Edge was using SSDP, enable though it was disabled, Read More …
Stories, and bit rot, from the IT Support Trenches
Allow Google Cast to connect to Cast devices on all IP addresses … or my Microsoft Edge was using SSDP, enable though it was disabled, Read More …
Customers had started to report that ipconfig /flushdns now requires Local Administrator rights. C:\>ipconfig /flushdns The requested operation requires elevation. Not all customers are seeing Read More …
Which made Skype, Zoom and Teams conference calls impossible, due to the latency suffered. Latency is what really kills these audio conferencing options. Video conferencing Read More …
By using PowerShell like this: Get-WmiObject -class Win32_PerfRawData_Tcpip_NetworkInterface -ComputerName Localhost | Format-Table Name,@{label="LinkSpeed(MB)";Expression={$_.CurrentBandwidth/1000000 -as [int]}} which will return this: I first learnt how to do Read More …
The heading alone should tell you the answer, particularly if I add ACTIVE FTP to it. You see, most Corporate IT people consider ACTIVE FTP Read More …
In February 2008, I wrote all about a Lotus Notes diagnostics utility called nPing. It’s no more. Go to the web link I provided then Read More …
By accident, I found out that my DNS server was lying to me again. Last time I caught it out was when it was serving Read More …
It’s amazing how some companies manage to function, or even survive. I worked with a company who operated a large IBM Mainframe network. Now back Read More …
When we talk about networking, sometimes we’ll talk about Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) packet sizing. I briefly referred to MTUs in the SSL errors, and Read More …
Reading a Microsoft blog post recently, I was reminded of a customer request from late 2002. The emailed request was something like this: Had to Read More …