Running a home network that’s both fast and private takes more than just blocking ads. For years, I relied on Pi-hole to keep unwanted traffic out of my devices’ DNS requests. It worked well, but ...

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 ...

Internet users' experience highly depends on how efficiently the Domain Name Server (DNS) works while browsing the internet. The DNS converts human-understandable domain names to ...

I want to learn more about how DNS works, and I am interested in setting it up on my home LAN for the purposes of both internal (private) hostname resolution, as well as reaching public hosts. I have ...

There may be times when Internet access seems to crawl, even when you are connected through a broadband connection and do not have other people on your network using bandwidth. Topher, an avid Mac ...

The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the most important, yet lesser-known aspects of browsing the internet. In a nutshell, it’s responsible for converting a domain name (like google.com) to an IP ...