by Visakh S | Aug 5, 2015 | cPanel, Server Administration
On July 1st, ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) sent out a notification that it may not be able to give out IPv4 blocks of larger than 512 addresses. This officially makes the decade old prediction of IPv4 running out a reality, and makes it necessary for...
by Visakh S | Jul 31, 2015 | Server Administration
On 28th July Internet Systems Consortium announced a critical vulnerability (CVE-2015-5477) in all BIND DNS server versions from 9.1.0 to 9.9.7-P1 and 9.10.2-P2. It allows a remote attacker to exploit an error in handling TKEY queries to launch a Denial of Service...
by Visakh S | Jul 24, 2015 | cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, Server Administration
Qualys reported on 23rd July an important root privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2015-3246), and DoS attack vulnerability (CVE-2015-3245) for Linux servers using RedHat’s libuser package. Here’s how you can protect your cPanel, Plesk and DirectAdmin...
by Visakh S | Jul 18, 2015 | Server Administration, Technical Support
In our role as Outsourced Tech Support for web hosts, trouble-shooting and maintaining IIS web servers is something our engineers do on a regular basis. We’ve seen that, in Windows dedicated servers and VPS, users sometimes request assistance in troubleshooting...
by Visakh S | Jul 15, 2015 | Plesk, Server Administration
Occasionally Odin Plesk customers report inability to send or receive emails reporting the following Outlook errors: The host ‘mail.domain.com’ could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the server name correctly. Account:...
by Visakh S | Jul 6, 2015 | FTP, Plesk, Server Administration
Shared, VPS and dedicated server customers using Odin Plesk sometimes report inability to use SFTP. The error reported would be “Error: Fatal: unable to initialise SFTP on server: could not connect. Error: Could not connect to server”. SFTP allows...
