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756d88Help With PTR Record
I'm on a shared hosting plan. Sharing an IP / servername 1.2.3.4 / hosting.examplehost.net - My domain is example.com There is a PTR record, that I cannot change, that has a value of hosting.examplehost.net and...
757d129DNS Service to create a network-wide ad and domain...
I want to build a solution that uses powerDNS/Blocky (or any other DNS) to create a network-wide ad and domain blocking service for multiple customers (tenants). Here's the breakdown: Multi-tenancy: I need to...
757d8DNS Tools
These are a few of the DNS-related tools, websites, and books we have heard of.
757d77URGENT About to yank my hair out over GoDaddy domain...
I've never experienced this and need urgent help as GD and SS aren't helping me at all. I connected a GoDaddy domain (which was previously connected to a Wordpress site) to a Squarespace site last Friday. But any DNS...
757d305DNS requests to .x69 and .xbf domain
Hello, Checking my PiHole today I noticed a couple of strange DNS requests going to the following domains:...
758d331are DNS resolvers running on the ISP server?
Hello, I read a bit about both and am unsure where DNS resolvers usually are implemented. Does anyone know with validated source? submitted by /u/DramaticEducator6276 [link] [comments]
758d56Getting TAI time on a Debian machine
It should work by default but, apparently, on some operating systems like Debian, it does not: to get the TAI time, you need a small configuration change. I document it here for myself or for people which will use a...
758d105The times, they change
I mentioned the other day how sad it is that so many links end in 404 after a short while, and I got a reply that it might be 410. Actually, it’s also often a 301. Be that as it may, and to distance myself as much as...
758d64Notes to self on directing a gpg-agent into a podman...
Directing an SSH agent socket (UNIX domain socket) into a podman container, is as easy as 1-2-mount, so I erroneously assumed that doing similarly for GPG would be as easy. It wasn’t, at least for me. I rose at 06:00...
758d71The Swiss can register .swiss domains from next week
The Swiss government is relaxing the registration rules for its .swiss gTLD so that regular people will be able to register names there from next week. Previously available only to registered legal entities in...
758d92.ai up to 425,000 domains
The .ai registry has provided its latest, sporadic update to its registration numbers, showing that Anguilla s ccTLD continues to be wildly popular compared to the country s size. It s grown from 353,928 domains on...
758d81A million “free” .music domains up for grabs
The new .music gTLD registry says it will give away up to one million first-year domains over the next five weeks as part of its launch program, but there are of course plenty of catches. DotMusic says the domains are...
759d98Des élèves à la conquête du passé
Ce livre raconte les dix ans d'expérience de l'auteure, professeure des écoles, à enseigner l'histoire à des élèves du primaire, en essayant de ne pas se limiter à un récit venu d'en haut.
759d419Is there a dns that blocks Apple from calculating my...
I’m currently on iOS 17.4.1 submitted by /u/Loud-Horror-3486 [link] [comments]
759d336Unbound issue
I’m testing unbound as recursive resolver on my macbook air. When I use it at my office or when connecting to the internet through my mobile hotspot it is working flawlessly. When at home and connected to my LAN wi-fi it...
759d485Confusion Around Funermental DNS Concept
The reverse DNS database of the Internet is rooted in the .arpa top-level domain. From the Reverse DNS Lookup Wikipedia page. What does this mean? I thought that, simply, my dns zone file will have a PTR record written...
760d577Public DNS Resolver ASN Question
Back in 2021, Facebook and its related sites went offline for a while because of a BGP isuse that prevented access to their authoratative DNS servers. I always thought that public resolver services (not the same as...
761d554DNS Anycast across multiple sites causing replication...
We have multiple sites each with their respective domain controllers. The domain controllers have bgp peering with the local cores and the cores act as RR servers with all distribution and routed access nodes as RR...
762d323Classless reverse DNS - direct host query returns CNAME,...
So I have two DNS servers running different versions of Bind, and they are answering differently on a classless reverse DNS query, despite what I think are very similar configurations, and I'm not sure why or if this is...
763d80Printing on a Xerox AltaLink from Debian
This is a very short article documenting how I managed to configure a Xerox AltaLink C8130 printer on a Debian machine. No rocket science, it is just that it could have been easier so I document it for the benefits of...
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