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An Intro to DNS

An Intro to DNS

I always find it amazing how little so many people in IT actually know about DNS. Well, today I’m going to give you a brief overview of the basics of DNS, the Domain Name System. We’ll call this, an “Intro to DNS!”

No more IPv4!

No more IPv4!

The last available IPv4 addresses have been allocated, which means we all need to start learning about and using IPv6! IP addresses are a set of numbers that uniquely identify a host on the internet. IPv4 addresses are composed of four separate 8-bit numbers (for a total of 32 bits), from 0-255, written as 111.222.33.44. […]