Networking
Who Manages DNS for the Internet?
DNS is at the core of the Internet and there’s no question that it’s a service we all depend on – so who is in charge of keeping it running smoothly? Let’s work our way through the hierarchy described in my previous post to cover who’s responsible and what’s changed over the past few decades. Continue reading ...
The Origin and Evolution of DNS, the Domain Name System
To understand the Domain Name System, you need to first understand that computers are fundamentally incapable of understanding “names.” They understand numbers – specifically the binary representations of IP addresses. Continue reading ...
DNS in the Homelab
Back in March, I wrote about my DNS setup after rebuilding my BIND environment in Docker. It brought back a mix of solid lessons and a few painful ones - and I didn’t expect the flood of questions that followed. Continue reading ...
Starting a Homelab the Right Way - With the Why
There’s a pattern I’ve noticed in Homelab culture: people start with hardware. Racks of it. Blinking lights, enterprise gear pulled from datacenters, computing clusters before identifying a single problem they’re trying to solve. Continue reading ...