Solaris Packet sniffer

Solaris Packet sniffer

Accroding to Network Dictionary sniffing tool is a program  that monitors data traveling over a network, and it can be used both for stealing network information or for monitoring and maintenance network.

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Solaris ZFS

what is ZFS ? 

ZFS is a UNIX file system like NTFS and FAT in windows, It's used widely in Solaris and its transactional file system which ensures that any sequence of operations is either entirely committed or entirely ignored. This mechanism ensures that the ZFS file system can never be corrupted through loss of power or a system crash.

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Oracle VirtualBOX

Oracle VirtualBOX

Oracle VM VirtualBox is an virtualization software package, you can install and will enable you to install another operating system on your computer. It will share the ram and CPU power of your other OS, form example if you are running windows and install virtualbox you can then install oracle solaris and other operating system, Download VirtualBOX from here VirtualBOX

To install Oracle Solaris on VirtualBOX 

1. Download Oracle Solaris 10/11 form here Solaris 10
2. Run VirtualBox from your computer 
3. Click on new, and choose a name for your virtual machine, and also choose the OS type you will install on it.

  

4. Choose the memory amount, and click on next and next again

 

5. Choose the size of disk you want to be availble for the virtual machine

 6.Click create

 7. insert Oracle Solaris Media .

 8. select the OS you want and click start bottom from the Menu, follow the information to install Solaris OS.

 

9. if you want to add more hard disks to your virtual OS, select the Virtual OS and click settingd

10. select Storage

 

11. click add hard disk

12. Click Next, then choose "Fixed size", Click Next 

 

13. choose your new Hard disk size, click Next, click create.

 

 14. your hard disk is ready now.

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Configure caching-only Server

 

Caching server gets its information from another server ( Master DNS server ) in response to a host query and then cache this information locally, it saves cached data until the time period "time-to-live" in named.conf file expire. When a caching only DNS server starts for the first time, it has't cached informaton , the caching only DNS server collects information as it send and recive quires. 

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UNIX VI editor

The vi editor is a command-line editor that has three basic modes of operation:

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Configure Slave DNS server on solaris 10

Configure Slave DNS server Solaris

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