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Windows hosts file alternative without needing admin rights?
I was inspired by DNS66, an app available to Android, which used a fake DNS server that dropped outgoing DNS requests to certain hosts. This way, it didn't need to modify the /etc/hosts file, thus not ...
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Set up DNS over HTTPS in Chrome?
Trying to enable DNS over HTTPS in Chrome (ver. 80) on Windows 10 Pro. Tried turning it on at
chrome://flags/#dns-over-https
as per a FOSSBYTES article but as per https://1.1.1.1/help it is ...
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how will DNS work under this circumstance (when no domain name specified)
Supposingly there is a host/server in the network with FQDN as "host1.example.com"
Can i know what will happen when i on another workstation, do a
"ping host1" assuming that host1 is not recorded ...
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Why do I need to add a period after hostname in order to get DNS resolution to work?
C:\Users\david>nslookup home-pi3
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.1.1
Name: home-pi3
Address: 192.168.1.81
C:\Users\david>ping home-pi3
Ping request could not find host home-pi3. Please check ...
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How to switch between DNS suffixes using CMD (netshell)?
at my job, I have to manually switch between:
1) append primary and connection specific DNS suffixes and
2) Append parent suffixes of the primary DNS suffix
a bunch of times per day (due to a ...
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Windows 7 Internet Only Works In IE (Not proxy, or Windows updates)
A friend of mine turned on their computer today and Firefox did not open any webpages they tried to navigate too (namely mail.google.com).
Anyway, they called me up since I do tech support and this ...
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Local hostname fails to resolve only in browsers
I am having an issue on Windows Server 2008. Basically the problem is that whenever my local hostname is used in a browser it fails to resolve.
As far as I can tell the name is correctly set, I can ...
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Computer cannot resolve Firebase domain
I am currently debugging a chrome extension that I wrote, which uses Google Firebase for its authentication and its realtime database. Now, the extension is already distributed to a number of people, ...
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What is the priority order mechanism of dns client configuration in windows?
I wonder what is the order of dns query in windows?
for example, suppose I have two dns server configured with different DNS Index.
to quote what is DNS Index
A lower number for the DNSIndex ...
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Setting Windows to resolve all hostnames via DNS when not connected to a Domain Controller?
The enviroment is a private network with a single router using DD-WRT's dnsmasq to resolve names and do caching. Resolving hosts via DNS works fine:
dig +short @192.168.1.1 gamma
192.168.1.22
Now, ...
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Windows clients are not resolving internal hostnames using dnsmasq
Setup
There are at minimum 3 devices involved in my setup:
raspberry pi: This has dnsmasq configured and is intended solely to function as a DNS server for my LAN, should I choose to use it instead ...
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How to force Windows to resolve LAN hostnames via DNS?
Forget everything you've read about Windows hostname resolution, because it's wrong when it comes to LAN (unqualified) hostnames. No matter what I try, Windows will not contact the configured DNS ...
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Make Windows 10 send the "computer name" as DHCP hostname
I'm running one linux machine and one Windows 10 machine on my OpenWRT wireless router. Both machine's names used to be "known" to the router, and I would be able to connect from one of them to the ...
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Why does it take couple of seconds for DNS resolver to find .local domain specified in etc/hosts
(Running Windows 7) This is one of the entries I have in my Windows' etc/hosts file
127.0.0.1 localhost mysite.mike mysite.local
First I noticed that my browser takes always 2.01-2.04s (so 2 seconds)...
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Selective DNS server usage
I'm mainly working on the road, connected via a VPN provided by the employer.
For a handful of services, I depend on the companies internal DNS server, meaning that I need to use the DNS server via ...
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