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 ...

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 ...

One of the biggest wins in home networking is self-hosting your own DNS server. It's not just that you can enable DNS filtering to clear your network — that's a good start — but it can be so much more ...

It looks ok. If you're only handling mail on these domains, you don't even need the CNAME.<BR><BR>Yes, that will allow you to change only a single IP and everything should cascade from ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...