I attended my favorite storage conference last week in Silicon Valley, File And Storage Technology (FAST). This is the foremost gathering of corporate and academic researchers and practitioners in the ...

In a nutshell, I have a PiHole on my network with "Use Conditional Forwarding" enabled. This setting tells the PiHole that for any devices on the local LAN to run the query against the router instead ...

A caching proxy server is a computer system or application that accepts requests for Web objects-such as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) pages, images and scripts-and passes them on to a real Web ...

This past weekend, my ISP Comcast had a bizarre outage, during which I could ping my chosen DNS servers fine, but wasn't able to actually resolve anything. This prompted me to search for a caching DNS ...

Before we can do any caching, we need something to cache. Here's a simple DataProvider class that has a couple of expensive operations in its interface: /** * @author adrian at aspectprogrammer.org * ...

The content cache service baked into more recent versions of macOS is beneficial for organizations of all types and sizes to get the latest Apple updates, apps, and iCloud data to all the devices ...

Advanced configuration parameters control how your Mac stores cached Apple and iCloud content. Here's how to change the settings. The idea with macOS content caching is that if you download Apple ...

There has been a long history of attacks on the DNS ranging from brute-force denial-of-service attacks to targeted attacks requiring specialized software. In July 2008 a new DNS cache-poisoning attack ...

A Reddit user has secured themselves a decommissioned Netflix cache server, posting about his experience on Reddit. Redditor "PoisonWaffle3" works for an ISP that has been getting rid of old Netflix ...