How DNS Works Reviews and details

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• How DNS works - Part 2

  Simplified explanation of how DNS works animated. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Basic question about DNS and name servers

  I can recommend this great site if you want to learn more: https://howdns.works/. Source: 12 months ago

• Learning DNS in 10 Years

  Https://howdns.works/ is a nice comic on the subject too. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Learning DNS in 10 Years

  Great talk! Here's how DNS works in short https://howdns.works This was posted months ago in HN and it was pretty good in explaining what is happening behind the scenes. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Resources to learn about DNS

  You might like this DNS comic: https://howdns.works. Source: about 1 year ago

• I've been using the revanced app since Saturday because I found some weird activity in my with vanced history, but now it's happening again, what do I do?

  See if this comic helps: https://howdns.works (:. Source: about 1 year ago

• Help deploying with workers, stuck in DOH client

  A DoH client is a software capable of speaking the DNS protocol (the address book of the Internet, ie thing that turns dns.google to 8.8.8.8; see https://howdns.works) over HTTPS (an encrypted transport). Source: about 1 year ago

• DNS documentation

  Basic without tech details: https://howdns.works/ Warm welcome to DNS by PowerDNS team: https://powerdns.org/hello-dns/. Source: over 1 year ago

• DNS documentation

  If you want real basics in comic book format: https://howdns.works/. Source: over 1 year ago

• What's a good practical beginner's course? It could even be an ebook!

  So there's some youtubes and stuff about how dns works. Or even this site. Source: over 1 year ago

• Need help understanding openshift vsphere installation.

  If you're totally new to DNS, check out https://howdns.works/, it explains it quite well. Source: over 1 year ago

• I have my first ever I.T. interview for an internship tomorrow and I’m a little nervous. What should I expect to be asked? Please give me your thoughts!

  However, if I had to guess, I'd suggest preparing by brushing up on your networking - OSI model, how to troubleshoot a computer not being able to connect to the network, how DNS works (shoutout to howdns.works!), basics of IPv4 and ports. Source: over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: What are the best learning references that have you found?

  I'm looking for introductory stuff like the following: - https://howhttps.works/ - https://howdns.works/ - https://tls13.xargs.org/ - https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/ - Eli the computer guy series on youtube (A+, Networking, Cloud Computing). - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Pages that didn't make it into “How DNS Works”

  Note that this is not about https://howdns.works/, a short comic thing covering more or less the same content. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• What does it mean to listen on a port?

  Not a blog post, but https://howdns.works/ is a really brilliant (animated) webcomic explaining how DNS works through a story. Each panel has some title text as well. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Life of a DNS query

  Https://howdns.works/ is another good cartoon/comic that explains DNS in easy to understand format. Source: over 2 years ago

• do dns servers really help with ping?

  DNS server : *Magic*, here's the IP, it will expire after blahblah minutes. Source: over 2 years ago

• Capture DNS request service on the Internet

  The distributed nature of DNS ensure it won't happen. For starters, the NS of example.com isn't necessarily controlled by the owner of example.com. Then, unless the TTL is low enough (and honored by other servers), the query will be answered from cache before ever reaching the NS. Even then, it will be the DNS server that's querying the NS, not the actual client (unless they're running their own resolver, and even... Source: over 2 years ago

• This is a Private DNS server... I changed it from my phone settings. I know VPN has risks of getting banned. Will this method get me banned from Call of Duty Mobile??

  Use those under the DNS-over-TLS (also called DoT) section. TLS is an encryption protocol that guarantees the data you send and receive can't be read or modified by anyone in between. You already use them everyday with HTTPS which currently is implemented as HTTP-over-TLS, while DoT wrap DNS inside TLS, but only from your device to the resolver. The privacy and security implication is a bit complex, so Cloudflare,... Source: almost 3 years ago

• Best use of a pi for privacy / anonymity?

  Customizing the DNS server allows you to limit connection because most apps & sites rely on a domain (ie, reddit.com), and to actually connect, they need a DNS server to resolve that domain correctly. There are plenty of third-party DNS services today, some with malware blocking such as Quad9, ad filterings such as AdGuard DNS and Aha DNS, or adult content filtering such as CleanBrowsing. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Is it safe to keep Cloudflare DNS permanently?

  Cloudflare doesn't support ECS, which might give a little better privacy (because nameservers don't get your subnet) in exchange for possible lower performance (assuming your ISP have a local CDN). But I don't see you complain about performance, so you can just keep using Cloudflare. Source: almost 3 years ago