This set of links points to useful resources on IP addressing, networking, and securing Linux.
http://arin.net The American Registry for Internet Numbers, the body that assigns public IP addresses for the United States.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html Search for, or get a list of, Internet Engineering Task Force Requests for Comment.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO The Linux IPv6 HOWTO.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2460.txt The IPv6 Standard document.
http://linuxreviews.org/features/ipv6 Interesting article on "Why You Want IPv6."
http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers Learn what ports are assigned to what applications at the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority site.
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Internet/Servers/Address_Management/Dynamic_DNS_Services/ The place to find Dynamic DNS service providers.
http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp The keepers of the SUSE Linux default DHCP server package and the optional client. You can view the current DHCP README file online at the ISC site.
http://dhcp-monger.est-unique.net/wakka.php?wiki=Welcome The DHCP-Mongers Wiki. Read man pages, search the mailing lists, submit new information.
http://nfs.sourceforge.net The Network File System project page, including FAQ list.
http://www.samba.org The Samba home page. See the HOWTO collection and Samba-By-Example Guide in the Documentation section.
http://www.wi-fizone.org Find a wireless hotspot wherever you may be at this site, sponsored by the Wi-Fi Alliance trade group.
http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802 Get the official IEEE standard document for any 802.xx networking specification here. This runs the gamut from Ethernet (802.3) to WiFi (802.11) and beyond.
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/11/wavelan.html Wireless network setup from the SUSE Support Database.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wireless.html Much good material on Linux Wireless Networking.
http://www.securityfocus.com/unix This comprehensive security site offers security news, mailing lists, and even some firewall rule sets.
http://www.linuxsecurity.com Get the weekly Linux Advisory Watch and Linux Security Week newsletters to keep up with the latest information and patches. Tutorials for beginners and articles for security professionals.
http://www.insecure.org The home of the nmap security scanner.
http://www.ethereal.com The freeware Ethereal network protocol analyzer and packet sniffer.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html#toc1 The Linux Documentation Project. This is an in-depth DNS how to with DNS general information as well.
http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/ Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. (ISC) is a nonprofit public benefit corporation dedicated to supporting the infrastructure of the universal connected self-organizing Internet. This is an in-depth DNS/BIND how to with DNS/BIND general information as well.
http://www.arin.net American Registry for Internet Numbers. A nonprofit registry responsible for the administration and registration of Internet Protocol (IP) numbers in North and South America, South Africa, the Caribbean, and all other regions administered currently by Network Solutions, Inc.
http://www.isc.org/bind.html Berkeley Internet Name Domain information direct. BIND software, developed by the University of California at Berkeley, implements a DNS server and a resolver library that enables clients to store and retrieve resources or objects and share this information with other resources on the network. This link covers BIND in detailed information.
http://www.iana.org/ Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. IANA is a government-funded authority that assigns and distributes international domain names and IP numbers or Internet addresses and oversees the Internet software protocols of the officially sanctioned root servers.
http://www.internic.net/ A registry responsible for name assignment within the following top level domains: COM, EDU, NET, GOV, and ORG.
http://linuxprinting.org A central compendium of information on printing in Linux. Download official and unofficial open-source drivers. Read the recommendations in the Suggested Printer List when you're in the market for a new printer. Ask questions in the forums.
http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/linux/products/printing_imaging Hewlett Packard's Linux driver efforts.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO From the page: "A collection of information on how to generate, preview, print and fax anything under GNU/Linux."
http://www.cups.org The place to keep up with the Common Unix Printing System.
http://www.pwg.org/ipp The IETF Printer Working Group's page on the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP), used by CUPS. Very technical, but a good FAQ.
http://www.ghostscript.com The Ghostscript news and community page. New release announcements and a community component based on "diary entries."
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost The ghostscript home page.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat Learn more about Acrobat and PDF from the official site. You can also download the free Reader here.
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us The Brother Linux support and driver status page.
http://www.bluetooth.com The Bluetooth website.
http://www.holtmann.org/linux/bluetooth Marcel Holtmann's Linux and Bluetooth page. Articles in English and German, plus downloads.
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/s.zachariadis/btpalmlinux.html A guide to connecting your Palm PDA to your PC with Bluetooth.
http://tuxmobil.org The place to get information on Linux on all sorts of mobile hardware: laptops, PDAs, and cell phones. Monthly newsletter as well.
http://tuxmobil.org/Infrared-HOWTO/Infrared-HOWTO.html The Linux Infrared HOWTO. Configuring and using IrDA.
http://linux-laptop.net Another portable Linux site.
http://www.sane-project.org Home of the Linux scanner driver project "Scanner Access Now Easy." Search to see whether your scanner is supported by Linux.
http://www.ntp.org Network Time Protocol home.
http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Servers/WebHome The Public NTP Server list. Find a NTP server to connect to. Much more helpful information, too.
http://www.cpqlinux.com/acpi-howto.html The Linux ACPI HOWTO.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/hardware.html#HWMODEMS Linux Documentation Project modems HOWTOs. What you need to know, sometimes in excruciating detail, about ordinary modems, Winmodems, DSL modems, and cable modems. Some of it is outdated, but the revision dates are always posted here.
http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html Trying to set up PPP manually? This is the place to go, as W.G. Unruh has worked hard to troubleshoot many PPP problems.
http://linmodems.org A place to learn about software-driven "Winmodems" and attempts to support them in Linux.
http://start.at/modem "Winmodems are not Modems." A large list of modem models to check for Linux compatibility.
http://www.swcp.com/~jgentry/pers.html The Linux Dial-in Server Setup Guide. A step-by-step approach to setting up your dial-in server.
http://www.vsftpd.beasts.org The Very Secure FTP.
http://www.cert.org The Computer Emergency Response Team. The place to go to learn about current security holes and the latest "virus alert" email.
http://www.openssh.org The open-source Secure Shell home. OpenSSH includes the Secure FTP client.
http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/anonymous_ftp_config.html Excellent guidelines for safely setting up an anonymous FTP server.
http://www.gftp.org The GNOME FTP client.
http://kbear.sourceforge.net A KDE-based FTP client.
http://www.ncftp.com/ncftp/doc Documentation for the NcFTP client and server.
http://wget.sunsite.dk Wget, the GNU tool for noninteractive (scripted) file transfer.
http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/20/1910209 A pithy description of what you can do with wget.
http://www.gnutelliums.com/linux_unix A list of Unix/Linux Gnutella clients.
http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net GTK-Gnutella.
http://bittorrent.com Bram Cohen's BitTorrent home page.
http://azureus.sourceforge.net Azureus, the Java BitTorrent client.
http://gift.sourceforge.net The GiFT open-source FastTrack peer-to-peer project.
http://apollon.sourceforge.net A GUI for GiFT.
http://kmldonkey.org KMLDonkey GUI client.
http://www.nongnu.org/mldonkey The home of MLDonkey, where you can download the core program. Front page links to all the file-sharing networks the client supports.
http://www.mldonkeyworld.com News, downloads, and support forums for all MLDonkey users.
http://wiki.etree.org/index.php?page=BitTorrent The eTree BitTorrent FAQ page, with much good information on BitTorrent clients, how BitTorrent works, and where to find content.
http://tldp.org/LDP/sag/html The Linux System Administrator's Guide.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Authentication-HOWTO Setting up passwords.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/admin.html#ADMSECURITY The Linux security HOWTOs all in one place. Be sure to read over the Security-HOWTO for an overview.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Shadow-Password-HOWTO.html Explains the shadow password system.
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11685.html A brief, but nice, overview of permissions and how to set them in Nautilus/GNOME.
http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo SuperUser Do lets you delegate specific administrative tasks to particular users without turning over the Root password.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam Pluggable Authentication Modules in Linux.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.doc/aixbman/security/pam_overview.htm This guide to PAM under IBM's flavor of Unix is helpful to Linux users, too.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sc7.html This article on "Practical Linux Security" offers an interesting take on handling users.
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci928466,00.html This Linux Security Learning Guide is a handy set of articles and links on the range of security topics.
http://www.schneier.com/blowfish.html The Blowfish encryption algorithm home page.
http://linuxgazette.net/issue81/vikas.html A summary of the Magic SysRq process.
http://www.learntosubnet.com A good source on learning how to use IP addresses and subnet them. Good (and free) lessons on how to work with IP addressing and name services.
