Why I run multiple DNS servers in my home lab (and you should too)
DNS is absolutely one of the core critical services in your home lab environment. It isn’t flashy or the “next new thing” but if DNS isn’t working, nothing else will…
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How to Totally Control DNS in Your Home Lab
When you start building a home lab, one of the first things you realize is how important DNS is. Every service you run, including Proxmox, Docker containers, Kubernetes clusters, or…
Sync Pi-Hole Settings and Blocklists between Instances with Nebula Sync
If you were like me, when you saw the Gravity Sync project was archived and would have no future development, this was a bummer as I have relied on Gravity…
Split Horizon DNS: How I Resolve a Subset of DNS Records locally
One of the core aspects of any network, whether it be your home lab network or an enterprise network is DNS. It’s always DNS right? DNS has been described as…
Setting DNS in Ubuntu and Troubleshooting
If you are working with Ubuntu servers in your home lab or production environment, you may have seen issues with DNS resolution. One of the reasons that DNS can cause…
Export and Import DNS Zone with PowerShell from One Server to Another
PowerShell makes working with various core services extremely easy and allows quickly and easily performing tasks that are labor intensive with relative ease. Recently, I ran across the need to…
Windows Server 2016 DNS Policy Deny Subnet Access to Zone
In the previous post, Controlling Home Lab DNS Resolution with Windows Server 2016, we looked briefly at the benefits of running Windows Server 2016 DNS server in a home lab environment…
Controlling Home Lab DNS Resolution with Windows Server 2016
Let’s face it, DNS is critical everywhere. Even in our home labs, DNS plays a major role in many services we may want or need to run as it does…
Lightweight DNS Server for VMware Lab
For those of you who are building and working with your own VMware labs and using either physical home lab hardware or maybe using VMware workstation to setup your nested…
How to find your DNS settings on your computer
Basic Internet troubleshooting often requires troubleshooting DNS settings on a computer. DNS provides the means for all the user friendly URLS we use to surf the Internet are properly translated…