Running a local DNS server is great - until your devices ignore it ...

Dynamic DNS, also known as DDNS, or DynDNS, is a very important tool for mapping domain names to IP addresses. It’s all about allowing a single web address to connect to an IP address that is always ...

Well, I've had a copy of AS in my hands for a while (we won't go into that). I decided to learn a little about how some of the services work. So far, I've set up an Active Directory Domain. I only ...

DNS is the Internet’s naming service. DNS maps the names of hosts to their IP addresses, letting users locate Web sites and mail servers. Traditionally, network administrators manually updated DNS ...

It is a problem as old as the Internet. You want to access your computer remotely, but it is behind a router that randomly gets different IP addresses. Or maybe it is your laptop and it winds up in ...

Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 both include a feature called Dynamic Domain Name Systems (DDNS), which enables the server to automatically update host (A) and pointer (PTR) records for ...

I setup a new Domain Controller which is also running DNS at a remote site. I have set the clients to point to this new DNS/DC for their primary DNS server. For some reason this server won't accept ...

The other day in the Linux Journal IRC room (#linuxjournal on Freenode), I was whining to the channel about no-ip.com deleting my account without warning. My home IP address hadn't changed in a couple ...

You’re on the road, it’s the night before your big presentation, and after a long day of travel you fire up your Mac to do a last-minute check on your slides. That’s when you realize that you forgot ...