who manages domain names & ip addresses

IANA & ICANN
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The assignment of identifiers such as addresses and names, to ensure that they are created and allocated in a way that is acceptable to all is the main factor for the success of the Internet. So some sort of centralized organization is required. The organization originally responsible for this task was Internet Assigned Names and Numbers (IANA). IANA was originally charged with the task of managing which IP address blocks had been assigned to different companies and groups, and maintaining periodically-published lists of Internet parameters such as tcp and udp port no.s. It also was in charge of …

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MSSQL – Two common issues while restoring a backup and it’s solutions

There are two most common issues while restoring the database (usually ending in .bak format).

First error
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existing ‘user_database‘ database. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Express.Smo)

Solution for First error

  • Connect to the database server
  • Logging in to the web server

  • Go to the restore option and select Restore Database

  • On the Restore page that loads up, make sure that the Destination for restore has the database you want to restore and in the Source for Restore, choose From device:
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  • HTTP 405: The HTTP verb used to access this page is not allowed

    On an html page, one of our customers was getting this issue. Despite asking him to change the extension to .asp, he insisted to have html extension and still process the HTTP verbs, where it is POST method here.

    Situation becomes like this a static page wants to be read a dynamic page and process the values obtaining from POST method. Solution is to make the .html read as .asp with asp dll, just like we do html parse as php in Linux boxes Here are the steps to do it on a Windows 2003 machine

    1. Start –> Run –> …

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    This blog, acts as a knowledge repository for the world and is unofficial! Anything we find interesting in the cyber world will go here. Most cases, this blog will reflect the happiness of our staff in reaching successful solution to an issue (s)he worked on. A reference for other fellow SAGEs who come across similar issues later