Portmaster is a free and open-source application that puts you back in charge over all your computer's network connections.

En changeant votre fournisseur de DNS, vous allez considérablement améliorer votre sécurité contre les menaces en ligne. Ce n’est qu’un parmi les nombreux avantages à changer votre serveur DNS.

Si vous êtes maintenant convaincus que vous devriez changer de serveur DNS, la question est quel fournisseur choisir ? Il y en a plusieurs, mais lequel est le meilleur, quelles sont les fonctionnalités disponibles, et quels sont les éventuels inconvénients ?

Ce blog n'a d'autre prétention que de me permettre de mettre à la disposition de tous des petits textes que j'écris. On y parle surtout d'informatique mais d'autres sujets apparaissent parfois.

whatsmydns.net lets you instantly perform a DNS lookup to check a domain names current IP address and DNS record information against multiple name servers located in different parts of the world. This allows you to check the current state of DNS propagation after having made changes to your domains records.

dig is a command-line tool for querying DNS name servers for information about host addresses, mail exchanges, name servers, and related information. The dig(1) man page is somewhat lacking when it comes to examples, a shortcoming this article tries to remedy.

The named man page (man named) lists two options for supporting IPv4 or IPv6.  Each of these commands are mutually exclusive, meaning using one of the options will not allow you to use the other.  Either IPv4 or iPv6, not both.  Now the default is to use both, so if you want to continue supporting lookups on IPv4 and IPv6 there is nothing more you need to do.  If you want to *only* use one or the other you can use the -4 or -6 options in the configuration.

Are you a power-user with 5 minutes to spare? Do you want a faster internet experience ? Try out namebench. It hunts down the fastest DNS servers available for your computer to use. namebench runs a fair and thorough benchmark using your web browser history, tcpdump output, or standardized datasets in order to provide an individualized recommendation. namebench is completely free and does not modify your system in any way. This project began as a 20% project at Google. namebench runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and UNIX, and is available with a graphical user interface as well as a command-line interface.

Lesser known DNS tools and BIND tricks

IPv6-test.com is a free service that checks your IPv6 and IPv4 connectivity and speed. Diagnose connection problems, discover which address(es) you are currently using to browse the Internet, and what is your browser's protocol of choice when both v6 and v4 are available.