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 ...

Your internet isn’t bad, your network settings are.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Cloudflare is an old hand at speeding up corporate internet services with its content delivery network (CDN). The company is also a pro at blocking Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Now, ...

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 ...

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 ...