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 ...

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, ...

If you're new to DNS, the easiest way to understand it is to compare it to a phone book. DNS is the phone book of the internet, except we don’t get to choose what number gets listed. Most of us let ...

Everyone wants to improve their internet speed, whether by boosting their Wi-Fi performance or switching to fiber-to-the-home. Those are good ideas for straight-line download speeds, but to make your ...

Ron Nutter helps a reader who wants to know if he can avoid running DNS servers on his network I was reading your article about the number of DNS servers you need when handling mail and Web hosting.

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 ...