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The DNS protocol has been around for decades and is a stable and reliable protocol. Even so, DNS does occasionally have problems. PING is a great tool for DNS server diagnosis, and I tend to use it quite frequently myself. However, sometimes PING just doesn’t give you enough information about the problem at hand. When you need more information about […]
Read moreIntroduction We all need proper DNS resolution for our network applications. When it this is not working, what do you do? Let us find out… Let’s face it, when DNS resolution is not working, using anything on your computer that has to do with networking is painful because there is good chance it will not work. DNS really is not […]
Read moreHow recursive DNS queries work. The basic concept of DNS name resolution is fairly simple. Every Web site is assigned a unique IP address. In order to access a website, a client needs to know what the site’s IP address is. Of course users don’t usually enter an IP address into their Web browser, but rather enter the site’s domain […]
Read moreAs many of you are probably aware, the Domain Name System (DNS) is now the name resolution system of choice in Windows. Without it, computers would have a very tough time communicating with each other. However, most Windows administrators still rely on the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) for name resolution on local area networks and some have little or no experience with DNS. […]
Read moreThis article continues the Networking for Beginners series by talking about how DNS servers work. In the last part of this article series, I talked about how all of the computers on a network segment share a common IP address range. I also explained that when a computer needs to access information from a computer on another network or network […]
Read moreAbout DNS (Domain Name System). This tutorial documents the steps needed to create an internal DNS Server that will allow you to use “friendly” names within your LAN (Local Area Network) or provide a platform for Host Headers to be used within your IIS (Internet Information Services) configuration. To find out more about DNS, visit the following site: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/technologies/communications/dns/default.asp 1. […]
Read moreThe inability to open a website by name usually indicates a DNS (Domain Name System) problem. DNS is the service that converts the website URL, i.e. www.yahoo.com into the IP address that is needed for actual communication. A quick way to test this is to try to access the problem website via its IP address instead of its name. You […]
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