Server management is a funny thing. No matter how long you have been doing it, new interesting and unique challenges continue to pop up keeping you on your toes. This is a story
Came across this admittedly weird issue. Randomly over the past few months, I try to go to Facebook or Twitter and end up being redirected to another website, usually MySpace. See screenshot
Network Solutions worldnic.com nameservers both appear down. Pings get through occasionally, this may be an indication that they are being DOSed. I used to think that their DNS hosting services would be
Everyone knows that DNS servers use UDP port 53 for queries, right? Well something that I recently learned was that DNS servers also use TCP port 53 to do zone transfers (axfrs). Make
I’ve recently been testing/installing PowerDNS for a web hosting provider. Man am I impressed. You have a number of options to choose for a backend to PowerDNS, my choice is
