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CNNIC: China’s Internet Will Be Short Of IP Addresses Soon

Posted by sudhirmangla September 26, 2008

The Internet in China may soon run out. According to the China Internet Network Information Center, under the current allocation speed, China’s IPv4 address resources can only meet the demand of 830 more days and if no proper measures are taken by then, new Chinese netizens will not be able to gain normal access to the Internet. Li Kai, director in charge of the IP business for CNNIC’s international department, says that if a netizen wants to get access to the Internet, an IP address... Read more »

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Domain names may go .wild, Internet group approves Web-address extensions

Posted by sudhirmangla July 4, 2008

PARIS — Starting in early 2009, almost any word will be able to replace ".com" or ".net" in a Web page address, thanks to a decision on Thursday by the international group controlling Internet addresses. Get ready for a nearly infinite variety of new Web addresses ending in ".perfume," ".sports," ".nyc" and ".prettymuchanythingyouwant." Heralding the most dramatic expansion of virtual real estate in 40 years, the Internet Corporation... Read more »

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Why does svchost.exe need to connect to the Internet

Posted by sudhirmangla June 24, 2008

Service Host (Svchost.exe) is the Microsoft Generic Host Process, which acts as a host for other processes running from dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). Multiple entries for this process might be present in the Task Manager list. The Svchost.exe file is located in the %SystemRoot%\System32 folder. When Application rules are configured in Comodo Firewall pro, Svchost.exe will have % SystemRoot%\System32\services.exe as the parent process.Service Host (Svchost.exe) is a core piece of Windows XP code... Read more »

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