A few months back, I put together a big fat guide on how to configure DNS and DHCP on your LAN the old-school way, with bind and dhcpd working together to seamlessly hand out addresses to hosts on ...

There are numerous reasons why setting up a home VPN makes sense, especially when security and privacy are top concerns. A VPN allows you to connect to your home network as if you were physically ...

Dyn offers a whole passel of DNS-related products, but the company is most famous for its free DynDNS service: it lets users associate often dynamic IP addresses with hostnames, as long as those users ...

It is a problem as old as the Internet. You want to access your computer remotely, but it is behind a router that randomly gets different IP addresses. Or maybe it is your laptop and it winds up in ...

The other day in the Linux Journal IRC room (#linuxjournal on Freenode), I was whining to the channel about no-ip.com deleting my account without warning. My home IP address hadn't changed in a couple ...

Active Directory (AD) is arguably the most crucial new feature in Windows 2000, so it’s important to devise a plan that ensures a smooth rollout for it. One of the first steps in planning your AD ...