I've always been a fan of putting aftermarket firmware on consumer-grade routers. Whether it's DD-WRT, Tomato, OpenWRT or whatever your favorite flavor of "better than stock" firmware might be, it ...

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 ...

In all likelihood, I have a dnsmasq misconfiguration. So before I go flying off the handle (again) for Windows being a pain in my ass, I thought I'd have my dnsmasq config checked out. So what I have ...

If you're looking to speed up DNS queries on your Linux machines, and you're using Fedora or CentOS, fear not. Here's how to install and configure dnsmasq. Recently, I covered how to install and ...