My general rule of thumb with DNS is to leave it alone, because I don't understand it's workings. But I need to mess with it for a client. Say my local domain is contoso.local. And I have a website, ...

I've got my Ubuntu 10.10 server and I'm trying to set up DNS so that it will track the computers that connect to my local network. [treading close to flame bait] I had done this once under Gentoo, but ...

I used to use the DNS servers provided by my ISP until I realized that they were using those nameservers to serve ads, block me from content they deemed inappropriate, and generally track my browsing ...

Are you tired of memorizing your self-hosted services IP addresses and ports? I was, so I figured out how to use Pi-hole and Nginx Proxy Manager to give my services local domain names without exposing ...

It's all about your IP address. As Digital Inspiration explains, all of the major websites use Content Delivery Networks like Amazon and Akamai to serve up the content. A CDN looks up your computer's ...

I honestly think most people simply are unaware of how much personal data they leak on a daily basis as they use their computers. Even if they have some inkling along those lines, I still imagine many ...

A non-networked computer is very rare now because most useful work involves data and services that are distributed across some kind of "internet" — that is, any network that speaks IP, public or ...

Matthew Sparby writes: "Lately I've been noticing problems with my PowerBook experiencing odd moments of lag when I use it on my home network. This slowdown doesn't occur at the office, however. I ...