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

When users connect to networks with a DHCP server such as those most home routers contain, they are provided with automatic configuration settings that include the essential IP address, network mask, ...

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The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the most important, yet lesser-known aspects of browsing the internet. In a nutshell, it’s responsible for converting a domain name (like google.com) to an IP ...

I set up a DNS server with BIND on my ESXi home lab running on a Dell server. I also setup a secondary DNS server which is a slave to the primary, also a VM on the Dell. On the secondary, in ...

Our network is protected by a firewall but my predecessor put both the primary and secondary DNS servers that resolve our domains to the outside world outside of the firewall protecting our network.

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 ...

I'm just starting to try and make my job a bit easier at work and I am trying to create simple scripts for my more mundane tasks. One such task is setting up and configure DNS zones on our two ...

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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.

Many DNS servers are wrongly configured or running out-of-date software, leaving them vulnerable to malicious attacks, according to a survey published on Monday. The Measurement Factory, an Internet ...