Author: Mike

Milind Koyande loves to work on new technologies specially virtualization and troubleshoot server problems. I’m an avid photographer and love to spend my free time close to nature, trying to capture its glory on my camera.

Cost Benefit Analysis of Disaster Recovery Options

For most companies, disaster recovery is a critical element to sustained operation. The increased reliance upon digital data has been a big boost in convenience for companies, but has also resulted in a number of unique security hazards. Digital data is easy to manage but is extremely vulnerable to various adverse situations such as a
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FIX:- PRNG is not seeded

Recently working on a Debian server, which was not responding to SSH connection. I have checked and found that the SSH service was down and while restarting it it gives following error sh-3.1# /etc/init.d/ssh restart PRNG is not seeded sh-3.1# I have searched on Google and found that the problem occurs when /dev/random and /dev/urandom
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Znetlive.in Homepage got Injected/Hacked

Famous Indian Webhosting company Znetlive’s i.e. http://znetlive.in homepage got hacked/injected with link to a Pakistani Forum in the footer. This link was smartly placed in the right side of the website’s footer just behind their live chat widget so it won’t be visible easily. Following are the screenshots of their homepage which I luckily took
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Guide to MS SQL 2008 Transactional Replication (Create Publisher) Part-III

After you configure the Distributor Server (Guide to MS SQL 2008 Transactional Replication (Configure Distributor) Part-II) now I will explain how you can create & configure the Publisher. Create & Configure Publisher 1) Select the Transactional Databases: Login to MSSQL Management Studio and go to  Server >> Replication (right Click) >> Publisher Properties >> Publication
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FIX:- error while loading shared libraries: libdns.so.22

Recently while restarting DNS service on Cpanel VPS it shows following errors: [root@support ~]# /etc/init.d/named start Starting named: /usr/sbin/named: error while loading shared libraries: libdns.so.22: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [FAILED] [root@support ~]# /etc/init.d/named start Starting named: /usr/sbin/named: error while loading shared libraries: libisc.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No
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