Personally, one of the main reasons I like to run my own DNS server at home is to protect my privacy. DNS isn't encrypted by default, unless you've got DNSSEC setup to encrypt your DNS queries. A DNS ...

I was wondering, what do you guys usually set the order of the DNS servers in the NIC card for a 2008 R2 server that will have the DNS server role? I was thinking that the first entry would be the IP ...

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 ...

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My general understanding with tinkering with this off and on, is that if I want internal name resolution, I will have to set up my own DNS server, and have all the clients point at that. But, that new ...