Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) is the first hop between you and the internet. Each time you connect, you pass information to your ISP, including domain names, IP addresses, connection timestamps ...
If you’re not familiar with how DNS works, I recommend reading Marco Chiappetta’s article about how to speed up your DNS. If it still sounds complex, there’s a comic series that explains how DNS works ...
I think I made a local domain server, but I'm not sure. I'm doing it by reading DNS and Bind. I made A records and PTR records for zones. When I type a domain without the dot, I can get IP information ...
If you're looking at changing your DNS for privacy or speed considerations, this free and simple web-based benchmark is the ...
A non-networked computer is very rare now because most useful work involves data and services that are distributed across some kind of "internet" — that is, any network that speaks IP, public or ...