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traceroute TCP equivalent for Windows

I'm trying to determine where connectivity to an external host using a specific TCP port is being blocked. Traceroute for Windows only uses ICMP, and telnet will only tell me that the port is blocked and not where. Does anyone know of a Windows…
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Setting Trace Flags "Permanently" in SQL Server?

We need to use SQL Server Trace Flag 7646 to help mitigate some full text blocking, but I was dismayed to find that the trace flag "unset" itself, probably when the database server was rebooted. I've used DBCC TRACEON (7646, -1) to set the trace…
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What is stored in %Windir%\System32\LogFiles\WMI\RtBackup?

I occasionally notice in Resource Monitor hard disk activity related to ETL files in the folder C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles\WMI\RtBackup. Which process/service creates these ETL files and what is their purpose? Resource Monitor shows "System" as…
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What's difference between monitoring, tracing and profiling?

I have seen these three words showing up a lot, but don't understand the exact differences between them. For example, collecting CPU utilisation is often called profiling and can also fall into performance monitoring. What is the (subtle) difference…
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Identify machines connected to switch

Our company recently closed down half our office space, which was not being used. We gave back the unused space to the building management and had it walled off. Prior to us closing it off, I jotted down the network jack #'s on the side to be closed…
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How do you trace/debug LDAP connections against Active Directory?

I am spoiled, and have been doing most of my LDAP work with eDirectory, which has a utility called DSTrace which is lovely, and for LDAP specifically, will show you all the bind attempts, the source IP's, the searches passed in, a summary of the…
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How can I audit a file to see who deleted it?

On one of our servers we have a file that keeps mysteriously getting deleted. What I'd like to do is have a program watch this file and let me know when/how/by whom it gets deleted. We have a backup of the file in question, so it's not much…
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how to do I/O sniffing

For sizing purposes I need to understand what requirements an application has to the I/O subsystem. I would love to do what I call I/O sniffing and obtain a list of events from the block layer like this: initiator XYZ requests block 4711 from device…
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How to trace Apache 301 Moved Permanently?

I have one virtual host on my machine, which I am accessing localy. I am running apache2 under windows 7. When accessing this host, I see in Fiddler, that server redirects browser to different remote site with response 301 Moved Permanently But I…
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Is it possible to match an internal IP address to a switch port?

I'm trying to find a computer that has a certain IP address on our internal network. I have identified the computer name from DNS, but in this case it does not help me. Just wondering if I can somehow tie the IP to a switch port, and track it from…
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Tracing chain of NTP servers

For educational purposes I wanted to trace a chain of NTP servers, e.g. 0.de.pool.ntp.org back to a stratum 1 NTP server. How can I do this? I found ntptrace, but it doesn't work: /home/xyzdragon# ntptrace localhost: stratum 2, offset -0.009285,…
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How can I find the answering DNS server?

Is there a way I can trace a DNS request to see where the answer is coming from? Our network has internal DNS servers that provide internal IP address resolution, and we use EasyDNS to host our public-facing DNS. The situation is that EasyDNS is set…
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Deletion of SQL Profiler Trace files (.trc)

We've noticed a lot of .trc files in our SQL data folder (\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data) on our server. The date range for these files spans over one day and the total file size of all files together is about 21 gigs. I'd…
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How to diagnose a hang when creating a new folder in explorer.exe

I have been having some issues with explorer.exe hanging when I create a new folder. If I use Analyse Wait Chain in the Resource Monitor it says "One or more threads of explorer.exe are waiting to finish network I/O". When I look at the offending…
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IP Address Trace

If you wanted to trace an IP address because that IP Address was the source of attacks and abuse, how would you accomplish this? Is there anything one can do to find who is using a given IP address and furthermore is there anything that can be done…
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