Greylisting
Over the past several years, greylisting has become increasing popular among mail server administrators in an effort to combat spam. It works by having the server temporarily reject any email message...
View ArticleNew SocketWrench Tutorial
We’ve released an updated version of the SocketWrench Tutorial we originally made for the ActiveX control and Visual Basic. This new version uses the SocketWrench .NET component with Visual Studio...
View ArticleThe Secure Shell Protocol
One of the significant new features in SocketTools 6.0 will be support for the Secure Shell protocol, also known as SSH. As the name implies, this protocol provides a secure, encrypted connection...
View ArticleBuilding a Better Server
SocketTools 6.0 will introduce a new component and API framework that is designed to simplify the process of creating TCP/IP server applications. In the Library Edition, this will be included as...
View ArticleIntroducing IPv6 in SocketTools 7
One of the new features in SocketTools 7 will be support for IPv6 networks, in addition to IPv4 that most developers are already familiar with. Although IPv6 has been getting a lot of attention...
View ArticleNo More IPv4 Addresses for APNIC
Today, the regional registrar APNIC, which is responsible for allocating IP addresses in Asia, has run out of freely available IPv4 addresses. This means that everyone who requests an IPv4 address in...
View ArticleWorld IPv6 Day
Today has been designated as World IPv6 Day, when the largest Internet backbones and many of the major Internet search engines and social network sites will test IPv6 deployment. It was originally...
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