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 ...

Running a local DNS server is great - until your devices ignore it ...

Setting up and managing a home lab has been fun so far. Self-hosted apps like Home Assistant, NextCloud, Immich, Jellyfin, and others would work well — until they became unresponsive. I wanted these ...

Currently my two DNS servers for my network are outside of my firewall and I want to move them behind it so I don't have them exposed on the internet. But I've got a few questions.<BR><BR>What ports ...

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 ...

My older kid was trying to apply for college at a university in Florida. Perversely, its website refused to appear. He tried Safari, Firefox, and Chrome on his Mac and Safari on his iPhone. Only his ...

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) ...

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 ...

As Brien recently discovered, a glitch in Azure can cause a virtual machine to fail when it's manually configured to use a specific DNS server. Here's how the problem went down and how he fixed it.