DHCP giving out IP address leases with pre-existing DNS entries for the wrong machine causing network chaos on a mixed windows & mac environment, and it's the macs who are having the problems. [more inside]
posted by jmd82 on Oct 2, 2009 - 11 answers

Can anyone recommend a South African registrar that provides DNS management for .co.za domains? [more inside]
posted by Hartster on Sep 23, 2009 - 3 answers

Frequently, web pages time out and won't load--why is this happening? [more inside]
posted by Citizen Premier on Jul 31, 2009 - 11 answers

Do I keep two domains separate but identical, or do I pick one and point the other to it? [more inside]
posted by jaffacakerhubarb on Jul 6, 2009 - 6 answers

My ISP's new "feature" of rerouting incomplete URLs to their own custom (awful) search page is hijacking my normal browser behavior of completing URLs with .com. Anything I can do to reassert normalcy? [more inside]
posted by Your Time Machine Sucks on Jun 5, 2009 - 14 answers

Please help me move my domain and hosting from two companies to two new companies without losing email service (and learn about DNS in the process)... details inside... [more inside]
posted by Alabaster on Apr 9, 2009 - 2 answers

My inamorata works for a company that is, surprise surprise, experiencing economic difficulties. One area where they are hurting is web hosting. Their site is costing them about $600 a month, which is waaay out of line for their site: html with some Flash, nothing special, not even any video. It changes rarely. What I want to do is to take over maintaining this site and save them a bunch of money. [more inside]
posted by Guy_Inamonkeysuit on Feb 23, 2009 - 15 answers

How do I make Firefox go to a page that I choose if I type a bad URL? [more inside]
posted by farmersckn on Feb 19, 2009 - 7 answers

buzzing noise in Dragon Naturally Speaking, but not on other programs. Using VMWare fusion to run DNS on my Mac, and recording/listening through a Dinex USB headset with microphone. Any suggestions? [more inside]
posted by omnigut on Feb 17, 2009 - 3 answers

How can I change the windows local domain DNS setting? [more inside]
posted by torpark on Jan 28, 2009 - 5 answers

My VPN in leaking DNS requests. I am clearing out DNS entries on non-VPN interfaces using netsh, but Windows keeps using DHCP to automatically refill the DNS information. Microsoft lists a way to do it in Windows 2k/2k3, but that registry location doesn't exist on any other Windows OS. I need to do this for XP and Vista also. How can I automatically disable DHCP from doing DNS updates using programming (not telling users to do control panel navigation)?
posted by torpark on Jan 20, 2009 - 8 answers

Need recommendations for a registrar with a soul [more inside]
posted by qxntpqbbbqxl on Jan 1, 2009 - 24 answers

iPhones, AT&T, and the University of Michigan..?! Help me sort out what is a - best I can figure - DNS issue! [more inside]
posted by kbanas on Dec 2, 2008 - 13 answers

What is the best solution to provide 'local DNS' for an office which has outgrown a hosts file solution ? [more inside]
posted by southof40 on Nov 13, 2008 - 13 answers

A question about Internet domains and DNS: What happened to the number of registered domains between 10/07 and 11/07? For the first time they dropped, and significantly: 2 million domains were unregistered. [more inside]
posted by about_time on Nov 7, 2008 - 8 answers

How do you explain DNS, A records, MX records, etc. to your staff and clients? What's the best way to get non-technical people to understand this? [more inside]
posted by fijiwriter on Sep 16, 2008 - 15 answers

Who is the appropriate party to file a complaint with, for a problem with a US locality (*.portland.or.us, NOT *.us) domain registrar that is not updating DNS records as requested? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Sep 9, 2008 - 4 answers

Can I CNAME a second-level domain, and delegate a subdomain to a nameserver? What if the nameserver is the same for both? [more inside]
posted by qvantamon on Aug 29, 2008 - 9 answers

DNSfilter: Trying to help some folks install new software, which requires a FQDN to run its server component. But their domain is an .int domain (they're not sure how they ended up with that, not being an NGO) which won't work. So I'm stuck guessing how to get a folks.com FQDN set up under folks.int. Can you point me at some resources? [more inside]
posted by bartleby on Aug 11, 2008 - 13 answers

I've got a web site that shows up just fine for everyone except me. I get a big fat "page not found" when I navigate to it even though it works fine in proxy browsers, I've used ipconfig/flushdns and cleared my browser cache. I'm sure it's a DNS issue of some sort, but have no idea what else to do. Help?
posted by bflora on Jul 19, 2008 - 12 answers

What is the best Linux friendly free dynamic DNS hosting provider? [more inside]
posted by Thoth on Jun 16, 2008 - 5 answers

NetworkFilter: I have a bizarre and arcane-seeming problem with my home network, the Internet, and my ISP's DNS. Invalid URLs are being redirected to the ISP's search page—in some cases. [more inside]
posted by adamrice on Apr 22, 2008 - 22 answers

How to set up MX records on on a DDNS server (zone edit to receive outside domains email) [more inside]
posted by antisocialiting on Apr 14, 2008 - 5 answers

While casually surfing, why am I getting 404 errors for pages that definitely exist (like google and facebook)? How can I stop it? [more inside]
posted by smersh on Apr 12, 2008 - 18 answers

I have an idea for a simple piece of software. It would involve intercepting browser requests, checking the requested url (probably not ip address, so before that conversion takes place) testing the url and redirecting if it passes the test. The test will itself make a network connection. [more inside]
posted by miniape on Apr 2, 2008 - 11 answers

Need recommendations for an everyman's guide to the DNS system thats readable yet thorough. [more inside]
posted by whoojemaflip on Mar 27, 2008 - 3 answers

My company can't send messages to some larger ISPs due to reverse DNS not being setup. But we're in a situation that isn't so easy to solve... [more inside]
posted by tcv on Mar 2, 2008 - 11 answers

Help me figure out this DNS problem with my website... [more inside]
posted by puffin on Feb 25, 2008 - 12 answers

Will serving images, other files, etc. from more than one domain make an appreciable difference in load time? [more inside]
posted by braintoast on Feb 7, 2008 - 12 answers

I need help setting up email addresses and DNS service for a business. [more inside]
posted by lazaruslong on Feb 5, 2008 - 19 answers

How do I give my computers subdomain names on my local network? For example, mylaptop.mynetwork.com, mydesktop.mynetwork.com, momslaptop.mynetwork.com, kids.mynetwork.com and so on? Do I have to set up some kind of local DNS or is there an easier way to do it in the router? I am not concerned at this point about being able to access the subdomains from the WAN although that would be handy later. It's the LAN I'm interested in. (Obviously I am using Bonjour right now but for I want to use the subdomains too). I own mynetwork.com and it points to a static IP. My LAN router is firewalled behind that. It's a WRT54G running DD-WRT. I have a spare computer I could run DNS on but I'd rather not have to do that. Everything is Macs running OS X, mostly Leopard.
posted by unSane on Jan 26, 2008 - 9 answers

How do you assign a subdomain to a different host? [more inside]
posted by tracert on Nov 16, 2007 - 12 answers

Every once in a while (time between failures ranges from 1 hour to a few days), Firefox on my laptop suddenly and permanently (until reboot) loses its ability to do DNS lookups. Every page comes up with "Firefox can't find the server at www.foo.com." Other apps (and computers on the network) continue to work fine. It seems random; I haven't been able to correlate it with anything else on the machine. Closing and restarting Firefox doesn't restore its DNS lookup ability, but rebooting does. Googling only turned up the advice to disable IPv6, which didn't help. I'm currently running Firefox 2.0.0.8 on a Dell Inspiron 8600 running XP Home, but it's been an issue since at least 1.5. My only extension is Better Gmail, and I've tried disabling all extensions in the past. I'm at my wit's end - do any geniuses here have a clue?
posted by dfan on Oct 26, 2007 - 13 answers

I'm trying to set up Google Apps Email Premiere for just a few users for testing. I'm following the instructions on the Pilot program help page, and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. [more inside]
posted by edjusted on Oct 13, 2007 - 5 answers

I work for a tiny non-profit where I'm the "IT department" by default. Trying to investigate further why our website/emails are being blocked by certain of our clients/relationships/partners, and I'm hopelessly in need of some guidance. [more inside]
posted by gemmy on Sep 25, 2007 - 17 answers

When I connect to my VPN in OS X (using the built-in client), all DNS requests are sent through the VPN. How can I prevent this? [more inside]
posted by dmd on Sep 11, 2007 - 12 answers

50 domains, 3 registrars, and DNS records hosted at 6 different providers. I need help inventorying this mess! [more inside]
posted by TungstenChef on Sep 5, 2007 - 6 answers

How do I configure DNS on a Linux server? [more inside]
posted by Doofus Magoo on Aug 13, 2007 - 40 answers

Please help me set up reverse DNS properly for an XServe connected to a network I manage. [more inside]
posted by odinsdream on Jul 27, 2007 - 10 answers

WindowsAdminFilter - I've got a small, single controller Active Directory domain comprised entirely of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition boxes. Things are ticking along nicely, bar one aggravating DNS problem. Namely, the boxes all have multiple interfaces, one of which I want to show up in DNS, the rest of which I don't...but for some reason, I get the address I want, plus a couple (but not all) of the other ones. [more inside]
posted by Kreiger on Jun 22, 2007 - 5 answers

Having trouble with resolving internal ip addresses though the external ip address resolves with no problem [more inside]
posted by jmd82 on Jun 12, 2007 - 4 answers

How do I force all clients on a network to view a webpage of my choice whenever they try to access the internet? [more inside]
posted by fvox13 on Apr 22, 2007 - 6 answers

Registrar & DNS Quetions Galore. How do I setup with a registrar my domains so they point to my hosted directories? [more inside]
posted by filmgeek on Mar 30, 2007 - 4 answers

Anyone know of a free DNS system that offers "domain aliasing"? [more inside]
posted by triolus on Mar 22, 2007 - 3 answers

What is the service that lets you change your DNS settings to route through a safe-site filter? [more inside]
posted by JPigford on Mar 18, 2007 - 6 answers

Is hacking just to find out the identity of someone illegal? The short story is I'm being harassed via email, have IP addresses, headers, all that, but not enough stuff that comes off as threatening enough to get anyone in authority to care. I downloaded and tried to use BO2k and realized I'm in over my head. I contacted a few "public" hackers and asked for help, but they claimed they don't do that sort of thing. I just want to know who this person is who knows my name and details about my family. I don't want credit card numbers, passwords, etc. Is what I want illegal? Is it _how_ I want it that's the problem? Public replies or emails welcome: painted_nails_20@yahoo.com
posted by anonymous on Mar 10, 2007 - 16 answers

I have a domain that I would like to forward to a free wedding site. I naively registered it through Dreamhost before realizing they don't provide this service unless you also buy a hosting package. I then signed up for URL Forwarding through Doster ($5 fee), not realizing that they pop-up obnoxious ads before doing the forwarding. So now I'm looking for an alternative provider for ad-free URL Forwarding.
posted by jacobsee on Feb 26, 2007 - 17 answers

DNS and Small Business Server and Caches, oh my: We switched web hosts at work (and waited a few days for things to propagate), but from the office network I still see the site on the old host. Can anyone help me understand DNS caching, Active Directory, and all the other bits and bobs that go along with the mysterious world of Windows networks? [more inside]
posted by bcwinters on Feb 3, 2007 - 15 answers

Some guy is DoS-attacking my mail server. Can I determine his name from his server's static IP? [more inside]
posted by Herr Fahrstuhl on Nov 28, 2006 - 10 answers

Domain Name Purgatory: I cannot change the nameservers on a domain I purchased despite the fact that I'm paying TWO companies for it... [more inside]
posted by BigBrownBear on Nov 23, 2006 - 14 answers