Ars Technica

DNS: Why Does My Domain Name Resolve to an Internal IP?

I'm having DNS issues with two of our websites. The project is eliminating our hosting provider and bringing everything in-house. I'm tasked with reconfiguring the nameservers for those domains and ...
Business Insider

What is a DNS server? How Domain Name System servers connect you to the internet

A DNS server – short for Domain Name System server – converts web addresses into IP addresses. Without a DNS server, you won't be able to connect to any websites. If you're having issues with your ...
Ars Technica

Best Practice DHCP in a Windows Server domain: am I doing it right?

I have my DHCP server (on Sonicwall) configured to give out the domain controller/DNS server ip as primary DNS, for secondary DNS I have set to give out 1.1.1.1, for tertiary 8.8.4.4 Does this comply ...
Network World

Introducing the New Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows Server 2008 introduced the most significant changes to Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) since its inaugural release in Windows 2000 Server. Microsoft has continued along this path with ...