Hey, I'm currently working on setting up my own web server for personal use. I have Ubuntu Server with LAMP and OPEN-SSH installed on an old desktop. I've got all that working and pretty much know ...

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 ...

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 ...

DNS works as the telephone directory for the Internet, and when it works, it's seamless to the user. But along with the growing move to self-host services comes a push to run DNS servers at home, ...

Many an IT administrator has needed to modify network interface settings in the past, usually via the graphical user interface (GUI). Besides just setting the IP address, if a system is statically ...

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 ...

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 ...

When sending an email, you can write anything you want in the 'From' field, so it's easy to spoof someone else. When someone sends an email spoofing a domain you own, engineer Vivek Gait explains how ...