Adam Hardy is a former assistant editor at Forbes Advisor, where he covered small business and tech. Previously, he was a staff writer at The Penny Hoarder, specializing in the gig economy and ...

The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the foundations of the internet, working in the background to match the names of web sites that people type into a search box with the corresponding IP address, ...

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, ...

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A key component of the Internet and how it works revolves around the Domain Name System, otherwise known as DNS. The underlying technology behind the Internet, is that when a computer needs to talk to ...

I have a dhcp client with 2 interfaces. Both are set to DHCP. On the dhcp server side - running isc-dhcp - I can configure the search domains. The client goes to the dhcp server for interface0 and ...

DNS is the internet's digital phone book, and impacts your browsing performance, security, and which websites you can access. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

When I first started doing freelance technical writing 10 years ago, I realized pretty quickly that I was going to need to set up a network in my home so that I could experiment with the various ...