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By zrydento, on December 18th, 2009
While I was looking for free public DNS servers the other day, I happened to come across the Google Public DNS. Reading the FAQ I gathered that it was not based upon BIND or NSD but was a proprietary DNS server written by Google.
When you connect to your ISP, most of the time you get an IP
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By zrydento, on December 16th, 2009
Although BIND is the most popular domain name server software being used today, NSD (“name server daemon”) is another popular alternative open-source server program.
NSD is an authoritative name server (i.e., not implementing the recursive caching function by design) and uses BIND-style zone-files (zone-files used under BIND can usually be used unmodified in NSD, once entered into
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By zrydento, on December 16th, 2009
Domain Name Servers on the internet use various software to function, the most popular DNS server type on the internet is BIND, which stands for Berkeley Internet Name Domain. BIND is the predominant system on UNIX based systems.
BIND was originally created at the University of California, Berkeley and is maintained today by the Internet Systems Consortium.
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By zrydento, on December 9th, 2009
Nslookup.exe (abbreviation for name server lookup) is a command line utility used for testing and troubleshooting DNS servers. It is built into Unix (including Linux and variants) and Windows. The main purpose of the utility is to query DNS servers to find DNS details, MX records for a domain, NS servers of a domain
In Windows, Nslookup.exe
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By zrydento, on November 29th, 2009
We all know IP addresses to be of the form XX.XX.XX.XX where XX is an octet ranging from 1 to 255 (Although other rules apply as to what the value of XX could be depending on either of the four octets)
However, for users who want to obscure the actual IP address can do so by representing them in
Continue reading IP Address and URL obscuring
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