Setting up and managing a home lab has been fun so far. Self-hosted apps like Home Assistant, NextCloud, Immich, Jellyfin, and others would work well — until they became unresponsive. I wanted these ...

Many an IT administrator has needed to modify network interface settings in the past, usually via the graphical user interface (GUI). Besides just setting the IP address, if a system is statically ...

Currently my two DNS servers for my network are outside of my firewall and I want to move them behind it so I don't have them exposed on the internet. But I've got a few questions.<BR><BR>What ports ...

As a part of our plan to keep our network hardware reasonably up to date, we need to move the DNS service running on a Windows 2000 box to a new system. I know how to set one up from scratch but I ...

April Fools’ Day commemorates the launch of Cloudflare’s own consumer DNS service, a very real and free DNS service designed by a company that views the buying and selling of personal data as toxic.

Cloudflare is an old hand at speeding up corporate internet services with its content delivery network (CDN). The company is also a pro at blocking Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Now, ...

There may be times when Internet access seems to crawl, even when you are connected through a broadband connection and do not have other people on your network using bandwidth. Topher, an avid Mac ...

Every networked computer uses a complex system of addresses and protocols to communicate. There are times when these services fail, and it might be appropriate to consider a preferred and alternate ...