I was using a provider but ended up losing my domain because I missed the reminder to login once. I’m now using freedns.afraid.org — I get up to 5 hostnames. I’m wondering if there are any other comparable Dynamic DNS providers. afraid.org has an iOS client to update your ip, but not an android one. … Read More “Free dynamic dns provider that doesn't require login every 30 days?” »

Dnscrypt is massively used nowadays to encrypt the DNS traffic. One node is pointed to the OpenDNS server. Does OpenDNS (L.L.C.) do something evil? Which DNS server should be trusted as the exit node. submitted by /u/JakeTheMaster [link] [comments] Powered by WPeMatico

Background in case it makes any difference – I use a company that offers a secondary DNS service where I look after the zone files for various domains and they perform a scheduled zone transfer to pick up any changes and then propagate the zone to DNS. The actual secondary DNS service is not the … Read More “DNS being hijacked, what's going on here” »

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I manage DNS for a few domains. Just looking to be a little less green. submitted by /u/Luxtaposition [link] [comments] Powered by WPeMatico

Hello all, first time posting in dns so if i’m clearly in the wrong section for this type of question don’t hesitate to tell me. Sysadmin here within a intermidiate sized web infrastructure with CDN on top (AK to not name it). Since a big part of our DNS request are handled first by our … Read More “Looking for scalling DNS solution… cloud or not” »

So, I am trying to link a few CNAME records to an A record, however it would appear that none of the CNAME records are valid. Here is how I have it set up(using godaddy if it matters): A: Host:PointsTo Col:CORRECTIP CNAME: Host:PointsTo adml:col mail:col but when I do mail.site.com I get “ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED”, but col.site.com … Read More “Records not linking properly.” »

Lately I have seen a case where someone got themself an own custom TLD, but hadn’t used it yet. Checking it resulted in a MX entry for the TLD. So I’m asking myself: could one register a custom TLD and use it as a valid address for just one server? For example according to RFC5321 … Read More “Using top-level domains as a valid address” »

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I’ve set up a local DNS server at home. It works great, but my problem is that the crappy “user friendly” router/switch/DHCP server/base station/plastic box does not let me configure which DNS servers hosts should be told about. Are there any alternatives to using DHCP for this (other than configuring all hosts manually)? submitted by … Read More “Alternative to DHCP for telling hosts about a local DNS server?” »