DNS For The Rest Of Us: It's Like Magic!

DNS is the backbone of the internet, and without it life just wouldn't be the same. But for most of us it's just the magic that happens behind the scenes.

It's one of those subjects that very few ordinary desktop users really understand. Everyone knows that we make requests to view a website in a browser, that request goes off into the internet, and almost like magic, the website appears in our browser.

Most of the time we don't need to know much more. Unless, of course, you need to troubleshoot your internet connection, benchmark the speed of alternative DNS servers, or even take advantage of some of the features, such as parental controls, that are available with some free public DNS providers.

This video doesn't attempt to provide a highly technical overview of DNS, just a DNS 101 for the rest of us. Starting with a brief overview of what it actually is and how it works, I take a look at some of the tools we can use to query and benchmark DNS, and finish up by discussing Dynamic DNS.

I Hope you all enjoy the video and find it useful.

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The tools I mention in the video are:

DNS Benchmark - https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm Namebench - https://code.google.com/archive/p/namebench/downloads

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