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Home LAB DNS - Technitium

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My Home LAB has been a core part of my career for the last 25 years and during that time, has evolved and changed as new technologies came along. Having had Microsoft Windows Server installed as the core part of my LAB throughout that, I have always ended up running DNS as part of my Active Directory Domain. This all changed when, attempting to install a PKI infrastructure (that wasn't Microsoft) I discovered that CAA records weren't a simple implementation. After numerous hours searching (and yes, using AI) I did eventually manage to implement it, however, being the techy I am I wasn't satisfied with this and so, I decided to take the plunge and implement an entirely new DNS infrastructure within my Home LAB.  I'm a big fan of Linux, but with all the will in the world I'm no expert on the command line so one of my core requirements for any new DNS Server was that it had at least some form of GUI. I tried many different ones, but I came along Technitium DNS  and the...