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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

I want to learn more about how DNS works, and I am interested in setting it up on my home LAN for the purposes of both internal (private) hostname resolution, as well as reaching public hosts. I have ...

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 ...

At some point in your self-hosting journey, you realize that you're already running most of your network stack at home, so what's the harm in adding one more service? And when it's something as ...