Category Archives: Glossary

IFCONFIG

Stand for InterFace CONFIGurator – display your ip address, network interfaces, transferred and received data information, configure a network interface.

LN

Make links between files, by default, it makes hard links; with the ‘-s’ option, it makes symbolic (or “soft”) links.

DIG

A flexible tool for interrogating DNS name servers. It performs DNS lookups and displays the answers that are returned from the name server(s) that were queried. Most DNS administrators use dig to troubleshoot DNS problems because of its flexibility, ease of use and clarity of output. Other lookup tools tend to have less functionality than dig.

TaskList

TaskList displays all running applications and services with their Process ID (PID) This can be run on either a local or a remote computer.

SUBST

Substitute a drive letter for a network or local path.  This comes in handy when you want to reference a directory which may have a really long path by a drive letter.

TRACERT

Find the IP address of any remote host. TRACERT is useful for troubleshooting large networks where several paths can be taken to arrive at the same point, or where many intermediate systems (routers or bridges) are involved.