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Hi guys, just wondering what the gerneral consensus is on easyDNS and Zoneedit? Does anyone here use either of their services and how have they been? submitted by Captain_Spicard [link] [comment] Powered by WPeMatico

I feel like everytime I think I have thwarted my ISP’s DNS landing pages, another one pops up. I am running my own caching lookup server and have my home router pointing at it. It seemed like I was getting proper NXDOMAIN for non-existent domains when I last left it. But then tonight, another landing … Read More “Battling forever against DNS landing pages” »

Hi DNS friends. I have a PDNS server with mysql back end. This works great. I also have a custom built pipe back end which also works great. I would like a query to be first attempted with the mysql backend and then fail to the pipeback end if the record is not found in … Read More “PDNS Question, or really any other auth server…” »

I’m having issues getting a sub-domain working on Digital Ocean while the root domain is pointed at Hetzner. What is the correct way to add the records to my zone file. Hetzner currently has the NS for the zone file. submitted by baadier [link] [3 comments] Powered by WPeMatico

Sorry for the simple question—I can’t seem to find the answer. I recently transferred my domain from my IXWebHosting to NameCheap. However, in order to have access to subdomains/email forwarders, NC customer support has told me I have to transfer my DNS to theirs. I’m just concerned that by doing this my domain will not … Read More “Transferring DNS to NameCheap: Does this take my website down?” »

I use a lot of locally-hosted apps (e.g. Wiki2Touch, PHP chatroom for sharing photos). On my own device, I can use http://localhost, but I have to tell friends my whole IP address. That changes based on the network: 192.168.1.x, 192.168.30.x, etc. Android devices don’t resolve hostnames from the browser address bar. A device knows its … Read More “Idea: Dynamically substitute local IP addresses, e.g. "192.168.1.136" becomes "lan136".” »

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I have been doing some research regarding DNS servers and had a question regarding port numbers. I noticed that when configuring a DNS server you can choose to have the outbound port number either be a random open port port or have it come out an assigned port. Which one would be a more secure … Read More “Is it more secure to have a random outbound port number or an assigned one?” »