openDNS seems to have free service that you have to sign up for called openDNS home. They also have family shield. What is the difference between these services for which you have to sign up, as opposed to just putting in the DNS address in the network propertion on windows? submitted by /u/metalupyourmax [link] [comments] … Read More “What is the difference between openDNS home and just putting the DNS server in ipv4 properties?” »

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Hi, This might be a dumb question but it’s bothering me. As far as I know, there is zero operating system with an out od the box ready to use local DNS resolver, meaning Unbound or Bind with root IPs. Not even privacy/security oriented distro, Tails, Whonix, Qubes, Subraph. Yes I know they can route … Read More “Why out of the box & ready to use local resolver is not a thing ? Candid question” »

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Hi guys. New (to us) corporate office requires me to use http://resources to point to one of their servers. I got Bind9 configured to work with their full domain name for those servers with this simple zone file: @ IN SOA ns0.something.com. hostmaster.something.com. ( 200211152 ; serial# 3600 ; refresh, seconds 3600 ; retry, seconds … Read More “Please help with CNAME in my particular case.” »

I am writing a small piece of software that will query whoIs servers, pull and organise all of the relevant information from the results. For this, I am performing two queries – first is a query on whois.internic.net to get the relevant registrar information, and another query on the registrar’s whoIs server. The issue I … Read More “Which whoIs server to query?” »

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Hi, I want to add RHEL OS in windows DNS and AD as well. I googled it but didn’t find any proper solution. submitted by /u/buddycool [link] [comments] Powered by WPeMatico

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Am evaluating Global Anycast DNS providers which can operate as “slaves” via the standard AXFR/IXFR protocol (so we can manage via hidden master). Dyn and Akamai FastDNS both support AXFR/IXFR and have a very good global footprint for their anycast network. Any other providers I should be considering? I don’t think either Route53 or Google … Read More “Global Anycast DNS Providers which accept AXFR/IXFR” »