DNS Chronicles - Part 1
Sahil Dhiman
GNU/Linux Network Engineer
Managing authoritative and recursive name servers (i.e. DNS servers) at hopbox, has shown us a bunch of quirks and insights of domain name system.
Sahil Dhiman
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Domain Name System
Sahil Dhiman
GNU/Linux Network Engineer
Basic function of Domain Name System (DNS) is to translate domain names to IP and vice-versa. It’s the phonebook of the computer. Why you may ask, because human’s remember domain names easily, wikipedia.org is easier than 103.102.166.224 . The IP is then used by the computer to fetch required resource for us.
Custom DNS based blocking for enterprise networks using BIND 9
Sahil Dhiman
GNU/Linux Network Engineer
Domain Name System (DNS) can be an effective tool to block access to certain domains in an enterprise setting. This can also help prevent intended or unintended access to known malicious domains.
Hopbox Public GNU software mirror
Sahil Dhiman
GNU/Linux Network Engineer
We at Hopbox have been Free Software users and contributors for more than a decade now. We were looking to contribute more to the community in a different from usual way. Downloads from GNU FTP mirrors were slow in India and there existed only 1 mirror (when we decided) for whole of India. As of 4th April 2024, we’re only GNU mirror in India.