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In the ever-evolving landscape of private cloud, technical debt often hides in the most fundamental places, like your DNS naming convention. For many years, .local was the go-to Top-Level Domain (TLD) for internal Active Directory environments. However, as per RFC 6762, .local is now officially reserved for Multicast DNS (mDNS) and is no longer recommended … Continued
When you request a certificate from Let’s Encrypt, our servers validate that you control the hostnames in that certificate using ACME challenges. For subscribers who need wildcard certificates or who prefer not to expose infrastructure to the public Internet, the DNS-01 challenge type has long been the only choice. DNS-01 works well. It is widely supported and battle-tested, but it comes with operational costs: DNS propagation delays, recurring DNS updates at renewal time, and automation that often requires distributing DNS credentials throughout your infrastructure.
This post explains how I operate my homelab with no public WAN exposure, using WireGuard to stay permanently connected to my home network from all my devices, …
An exploration of DNS and Name-to-IP translation. This deep dive explores NSS, getaddrinfo, systemd-resolved and more!
Whilst Microsoft SQL Server is still in technical preview in Data Services Manager 9.0.1, our team continues to release significant enhancements for our customers as we gravitate towards full support.
“It’s always DNS” is a famous meme among network people. Name resolution is technically quite simple. It’s “just” translating a hostname like jan.wildeboer.net to an IP address. What could possibly go wrong? I am a radical optimist and detail-obsessed knowledge collector, so I decided to find out. As part of my goal to make my home network a little island of Digital Sovereignty, meaning that everything at home should JustWork™, even with no working internet connection, a DNS server is needed.
On July 14th, 2025, Cloudflare made a change to our service topologies that caused an outage for 1.1.1.1 on the edge, resulting in downtime for 62 minutes for customers using the 1.1.1.1 public DNS Resolver as well as intermittent degradation of service for Gateway DNS.
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:dog: Command-line DNS Client for Humans. Written in Golang - mr-karan/doggo
Dans cet article, j’expose 3 problèmes que j’ai rencontré dans ma carrière avec le DNS sur Kubernetes. Le 3eme est d’ailleurs un bug non corrigé à ce jour sur kube-proxy en mode iptables, et impacte n
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