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LPIC1-001- Windows Or Linux?

What are Clients and Servers? To better understand the differences between Linux and Windows, let us first see what a server is and what it does. A Server is a device or a computer program That provides various services to its clients. Clients also can be a computer program or a device that sends requests […]

KL016 – Kali Linux as a DNS Client

Domain Name Service (DNS) As we covered in our networking course here, in order to send your message to a destination over a routed infrastructure, you need to encapsulate your message into a TCP/IP Layer-3 header. We have also covered that headers include source and destination addresses. In case of Layer-3 with TCP/IP model, we […]

KL015 – Traffic Capture and Port Scan

tcpdump tcpdump is a text-based network sniffer. Let’s capture some traffic. We have used switch -i to indicate the interface on Kali Linux which we want to sniff on. Then we have specified our filer to match the traffic. If we don’t specify any filter, we capture all the traffic passing through that interface. The […]

KL014 – Kali Linux Networking

hostnamectl and timedatectl To query and change the system hostname and related settings use hostnamectl command. timedatectl may be used to query and change the system clock and its settings, and enable or disable time synchronization services. ip vs ifconfig Ethernet networks are called ethx (old fashion) or things like enp0s25 (nowadays). Traditionally, ifconfig was the tool to configure […]

KL012 – Downloading Files

wget wget is a utility for download of files from the Web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols. curl curl is a tool for transferring data from or to a server. It supports these protocols. Switch -o along with a string saves the file under the name of that string. As an exercise download […]