Information about DNS and network
I am in the process of reading up on VPN’s and in doing so, stumbled upon the importance of having altered DNS servers. As of now, my DNS server is provided by my ISP, and I would like to change this. In addition, I would like to begin using a VPN, but that is a … Read More “Options other than my ISP's DNS?” »
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Currently several of our main domain names are manually replicated into our corporate windows DNS servers from our api-less DNS provider. As you can imagine, over the years we’ve got loads of discrepancies between both zones, records existing on one side but not the other which is pain. I’ve started to shift domains to existing … Read More “Low-maintenance split horizon DNS?” »
I’ve tried googling this for days and I honestly couldn’t find a legitimate answer. I’m running a VPS with Zpanel installed (CentOS 6.6) and created a domain. I want a third party DNS service, such as dottk or DNS4.pro to point to my domain that I’ve created on ZPanel. I’ve tried using DNS4.pro by changing … Read More “pointing third party DNS to zpanel domain on VPS?” »
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One of my new kids on the block asked me a question tonight; “Jermal, how do I get the mx record of a domain?” To retrieve mx record information we need to use a tool called nslookup which is available in Windows and Linux The quick syntax use is nslookup [-option] [hostname] [server] Example of … Read More “Retrieve MX records using nslookup” »
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Everyone thought it was bandwidth utilization but we brought in a new 50/10 circuit (this issue wasn’t the deciding factor) and it may have gotten worse. Symptoms: Pages load slowly, I mean 56k slow but only sometimes, but frequently, or pages load halfway but on refresh almost instantly. Since the latest chrome update it actually … Read More “DNS lookup failed or very, very, slow.” »