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 ...

Setting up and managing a home lab has been fun so far. Self-hosted apps like Home Assistant, NextCloud, Immich, Jellyfin, and others would work well — until they became unresponsive. I wanted these ...

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 ...

This weekend I will be setting up a small network with 8 workstations running Windows 2000 Professional, and a domain controller running Windows 2000 server. I know I need to have the DNS service ...

DNS works as the telephone directory for the Internet, and when it works, it's seamless to the user. But along with the growing move to self-host services comes a push to run DNS servers at home, ...

My older kid was trying to apply for college at a university in Florida. Perversely, its website refused to appear. He tried Safari, Firefox, and Chrome on his Mac and Safari on his iPhone. Only his ...