How To Install SSH Server On Ubuntu

SSH server scenario
One of the earlier posts described how to access a SSH server from Linux Mint/Ubuntu using a SSH client like Putty. Let’s see how to install and configure a SSH server as shown in given scenario which is very common  : The basic idea here is that the SSH server needs to be able to communicate with internet / external network as well as with local area network. This is accomplished by the...

A Brief Primer On Using Dig For DNS Lookups In Linux Mint / Ubuntu

Here is a quick way to get all the DNS information about a specific domain / website when using Linux Mint / Ubuntu : 1. Open Terminal and type : dig <domain name> Basically dig stands for Digital Information Groper (what an acronym!) and it queries DNS servers to get the appropriate records from it. In case you want a brief idea about what exactly is DNS, check here. One cool thing about using...