A few months back, I put together a big fat guide on how to configure DNS and DHCP on your LAN the old-school way, with bind and dhcpd working together to seamlessly hand out addresses to hosts on ...

Aging is a feature that allows identifying stale DNS records. It actually uses two intervals and a DNS record is considered as stale once both are elapsed. These intervals are: Non-Refresh Interval: ...

Hey guys, I'm not sure what's going on here, and I doubt it's even a real problem, but for cleanliness' sake, I figured I would address it. I was poking around my two DC/DNS servers this morning, and ...

LAS VEGAS -- The Microsoft site outage in January of this year brought attention to the crucial, yet often neglected issue of DNS server configuration. A single point of failure--in this case, the ...

It's not necessarily the software at fault, though ...

A Forward Lookup Zone is like a phone book for computers, converting domain names into IP addresses. When you type a website name like “example.com,” the zone helps your device find the server hosting ...

What is the DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN error on Google Chrome? The DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN error occurs when the browser cannot find the IP address for the ...

When I went into writing this article, I thought I knew the route to the destination I intended to lead you to. But in retracing my steps to make sure I understood the way, I ended up way off course.

Whether you're a homelabber looking to take the next step in improving your network, interested in increasing your network speed and snappiness or concerned about your privacy, adding a custom DNS ...

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.