Articles tagged with dns

  1. Mac OS X Not Using Search Domains

    Posted on in System Administration

    Every time I restart my OS X Mountain Lion (10.9) laptop, it stops using the DNS search domains I've added via the Network preferences pane. I have found that restarting mDNSResponder fixes this issue. There are two ways to do this.

    The first is a simple restart by sending …

  2. Lion + Cisco VPN DNS Workaround

    Posted on in System Administration

    When I upgraded to OS X 10.7 (Lion), I started using the built-in IPSec VPN client rather than Cisco's VPNClient. I experienced problems immediately. At first it appeared that the connection was being made, but no traffic was passing. When I tried pinging by IP address, I found that …

  3. MySQL: Disable DNS Lookups

    Posted on in Software

    Powered By MySQLIn a small environment, there's very little reason to rely on DNS resolution inside MySQL. You can disable it by adding skip-name-resolve to your my.cnf or by using the --skip-name-resolve command line argument.

    Remember that if you disable DNS lookups, you will need to set permissions using IP addresses …

  4. Clear Windows DNS Server Cache From the CLI

    Posted on in System Administration

    Clearing the Windows DNS Server cache from the command line is an easy task.

    C:\> dnscmd . /clearcache
    

    The . indicates the local DNS server. You can use this command to clear the cache of remote DNS servers by replacing the . with the hostname or IP address of the remote server.

  5. ISC Releases BIND 9.4.3

    Posted on in Software

    After almost a year of development, the Internet Software Consortium (ISC) announced the newest release of their Domain Name System (DNS) server, BIND 9.4.3, today. This release includes over 140 fixes over BIND 9.4.2.

    Although this maintenance release is mainly focused on bug fixes, it does …

  6. BIND 9.4.2 Just For You!

    Posted on in Software

    In case you missed it, Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) released version 9.4.2 of their BIND DNS server yesterday. It is recommended that all you BIND DNS operators out there upgrade your software, as BIND 9.4.2 over 90 fixes! Here's a graphical representation of the types of …

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