I think I made a local domain server, but I'm not sure. I'm doing it by reading DNS and Bind. I made A records and PTR records for zones. When I type a domain without the dot, I can get IP information ...

It's the backbone of any successful home lab ...

This past weekend, my ISP Comcast had a bizarre outage, during which I could ping my chosen DNS servers fine, but wasn't able to actually resolve anything. This prompted me to search for a caching DNS ...

This is the one router setting I change immediately on every network ...

Many an IT administrator has needed to modify network interface settings in the past, usually via the graphical user interface (GUI). Besides just setting the IP address, if a system is statically ...

As a part of our plan to keep our network hardware reasonably up to date, we need to move the DNS service running on a Windows 2000 box to a new system. I know how to set one up from scratch but I ...

April Fools’ Day commemorates the launch of Cloudflare’s own consumer DNS service, a very real and free DNS service designed by a company that views the buying and selling of personal data as toxic.

Each time you open a browser and type in a web address, there’s a hidden hand sending all the information to your PC to render the page as it should. Those middle-men of your newly loaded webpage are ...

DNS traffic is prone to snooping, and it’s often far too easy for attackers to hijack and change a company’s DNS settings. These simple steps will amp up your DNS protection. Domain Name System (DNS) ...