DNS
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home lab
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 the phone book of the Internet and of computer networks…
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Networking
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 fits in Ubuntu and other Linux distros is multiple files…
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Powershell
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 copy a DNS zone from one lab to another lab…
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Windows Server 2016
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 and why you would want to do that. Looking a…
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home lab
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 in production. At first, many in home labs may tend…
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vSphere 6
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 VMware lab, you most likely will be in need of…
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Windows
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 into the IP addresses the computers and servers understand in…
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Windows
Configure additional bindings in IIS 7.5 so websites answer to different names
One of the main purposes of the “Bindings” setting for a website’s properties is so the webserver knows which website to serve out when a request comes across on port 80. After all if a server is literally serving out…
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Windows
How to correct reverse DNS issues
Most of the time people think of DNS as being the service that helps us to resolve a name to an IP address and that is certainly true, as without this service, the Internet as we know it could not…
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Cloud
How to Move your DNS services to the Cloud
As the direction for more and more IT shops as well as bigger enterprise environments shift to the cloud and cloud services, organizations and businesses are looking for ways to cut costs either in the operational side or head counts…
