Although domain controllers can be configured to obtain an IP address from DHCP, it’s best practice to configure a static IP address so that it can be reliably discovered across the network. You may ...

I ensure that my home lab has clients on my internal network, which are responsive and not exposed externally.

You can find the hostname of any computer with a public IP address by passing the address to any Domain Name System (DNS) server. However, since the computers on a small business network have private ...

Operating systems like Windows 7 have a special text file that is used locally to map IP address to domain or host names. This file is usually called the "hosts" file. The hosts file can be used to ...

I tend to use them rather sparingly, and the last time I used Nginx was for a college project where I had to map some domain ...

How to configure Ubuntu Linux server as a Domain Controller with samba-tool Your email has been sent If you'd like to set up a domain controller on the cheap, Samba makes this possible. Here's how.

The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the foundations of the internet, working in the background to match the names of web sites that people type into a search box with the corresponding IP address, ...

How to set a static IP address on Debian server Your email has been sent Jack Wallen walks you through the process of giving a standard user sudo privileges so they can set a static IP address on ...

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 ...