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| DNS reddit | 0d | 0 | Windows clients cannot join Domain: Samba 4.22.4/FreeIPA... Hi everyone,
I'm currently in the middle of a critical infrastructure migration for an ISP in Ecuador, and I’ve hit a brick wall. The symptom is simple but devastating: no Windows client (10/11) can join the domain.... |
| DNS reddit | 1d | 2 | After changing the nameservers for my domain to a third... I am by no means an expert on how the DNS works. But this sparked my interest, so I came here for wisdom of the elders of DNS. What happened is that I changed the nameservers for a domain name that I own. It was using... |
| DNS reddit | 1d | 2 | dns noob question submitted by /u/boneaura
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| DNS reddit | 1d | 2 | I need help with a DNS to bypass restrictions and block... I need help! I need a DNS server to bypass the restrictions in my country, Venezuela (I want to access Twitter) and block annoying ads. I'm on Android. Help! submitted by /u/Express-Progress-198
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| DNS reddit | 3d | 11 | gov.uk appears to publish SPF + DMARC reject records for... submitted by /u/JoeTiedeman
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| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4d | 12 | 2026 new gTLD round has actually opened As of today, you can now apply to own a piece of the internet s root zone for the first time since 2012. Almost unbelievably, given some of its relatively recent history, ICANN has hit its deadline and opened up its... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4d | 11 | Nominet wants to fight shrinkage without self-abuse Nominet has acknowledged that .uk has been shrinking for some time and wants to do something about it without accidentally inviting hordes of spammers and scammers into its zone. The registry said this week that it is... |
| DNS reddit | 5d | 12 | Pi-hole + Unbound or Quad9 DoH? Hello,
I have been looking into getting a Raspberry Pi to host Pi-hole (or Adguard Home, I havent decided yet) and also Unbound DNS.
Now, I've come into a fork in the road, if you will.
I am unsure if it makes more... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 5d | 12 | Test de copy.fail et d'un contournement Petit test de la faille de sécurité du noyau Linux copy.fail (https://copy.fail/) sur une VM neuve. |
| DNS reddit | 5d | 14 | Windows Server 2019 DNS Problem Right now I have 20 Windows 11 workstation formally joined to a 2019 Standard Server network. The DNS value on all the workstations is the IP of the Windows Server.
We are slowly migratin computer to an Azure AD... |
| DNS reddit | 5d | 14 | EU-Funded DNS Provider Must Block Pirate Sites, French... submitted by /u/Stunning-Skill-2742
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| DNS reddit | 6d | 17 | Been using DigInterface lately — solid free DNS/email... So I stumbled across DigInterface a while back and it's quietly replaced a few different bookmarks for me.
Covers DNS lookup, WHOIS (handles IPs and ASN numbers too), SPF expander, blacklist checker, SSL checker, email... |
| DNS reddit | 7d | 17 | Question on SPF formatting: multiple providers- I could... Sometimes I see the a: at the beginning, sometimes I don't see it at all in the examples. Usually I see it on the first. I don't really know what the a: is for. I just saw this on a client and I'm thinking it needs some... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 7d | 18 | Verisign cranks up guidance as .com swells Verisign has significantly bumped up its growth expectations for 2026, saying it expects to sell far more domains than previously thought. The company said it expects its domain name base the combined domains under... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 8d | 15 | More Verisign bitchiness as .com price rise revealed Verisign is putting up the price of a .com domain again, and it clearly wishes it could raise it even more. The registry said that it will increase the base annual wholesale fee by 71 cents from $10.26 to $10.97... |
| Miek Gieben | 8d | 5 | Uncloud Prometheus Prometheus metrics are being worked on by me , and will hopefully soon be merged in Uncloud .
The uncloudd metrics endpoint is exposed into the cluster network, so this makes it possible for a Prometheus service... |
| DNS reddit | 8d | 23 | Differences between Adguard DNS and Control D? Hi all,
I've recently been looking into some paid DNS providers, as I'd like to be able to choose/change block lists (and with the price of flash memory/storage atm I'd rather not Pi hole it). I've narrowed it down to... |
| Miek Gieben | 9d | 16 | Uncloud L4 Natively Uncloud doesn t do L4 forwarding. This is an open issue as we are figuring out how to actually do this. But it turns out you can already do this with the current code - well almost.
Buckle up, because there is... |
| DNS reddit | 10d | 25 | Packet-level deep dive into encrypted DNS submitted by /u/wreditor
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| NLnet Labs | 10d | 21 | Dutch Internet pioneer Jaap Akkerhuis Knighted for... Jaap Akkerhuis was awarded Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion on April 24, 2026. It is the highest civilian order of chivalry in the Netherlands, conferred on persons who have rendered outstanding service to society. |
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