Ajitabh Pandey's Soul & Syntax

Exploring systems, souls, and stories – one post at a time

  • From /etc/hosts to 127.0.0.53: A Sysadmin’s View on DNS Resolution

    If you’ve been managing systems since the days of AT&T Unix System V Release 3 (SVR3), you remember when networking was a manual affair. Name resolution often meant a massive, hand-curated /etc/hosts file and a prayer. As the Domain Name System (DNS) matured, the standard consolidated around a single, universally understood text file: /etc/resolv.conf. For…