Although BIND is still the DNS champ, Windows 2000 DNS is becoming more popular. But what do you do when you need to have both on your network? An interop pro shares how to make it happen—step by step ...

I ensure that my home lab has clients on my internal network, which are responsive and not exposed externally.

Serial numbers in zone files help your DNS service determine whether it should re-ingest your zone files or ignore them. But there’s more to these pseudo timestamps than meets the eye. In fact, the ...

Amazon Web Services today launched the beta of a programmable and purportedly scalable hosted Domain Name System service aimed at letting users of its cloud services create, modify and delete DNS zone ...

OK, so I've recently switched my DNS services from Dotster to Granite Canyon, because GC is free and I figured I could write a host file with relative ease ...

The U.S. government is soliciting input on a way to make the Internet’s addressing system less susceptible to tampering by hackers. Under the idea, records in the DNS root zone would be ...

If you’re planning a Windows 2000 Server domain migration, a solid DNS strategy to support deployment of Windows 2000’s Active Directory (AD) is the first among your many concerns. In companies that ...

If the DNS server is not able to create a new DNS Zone, and you see Event ID 504 in the Event Viewer of your Windows computer, execute the solutions mentioned below: Often, information for the zone ...

It depends. There are many different file sharing protocols, both local-only and routed. Many use DNS for name resolution, others can use mDNS (an announced protocol not dependent on a DNS server).

EURid, the registry for the .eu domain, has developed a new open source DNS (domain name server) called YADIFA as an alternative to existing DNS software such as BIND or Name Server Daemon (NSD).