How to diagnose DNS resolution

Build Nameforge, DNS lookup and failure drills with DNS, dig, resolvers, TTL.

  • Difficulty Intermediate
  • Parts 10
  • Stack DNS, dig, resolvers, TTL

What you are learning

Nameforge is DNS lookup and failure drills. The teaching focus is DNS (DNS, dig, resolvers, TTL).

Work in order. Early parts set vocabulary and environment; later parts assume the earlier checkpoints.

How to use these lessons

Read the goal, open the matching GitHub folder, complete the lab or exercises, then return for the explanation. If a command fails, check you are in the numbered folder first.

Open the Nameforge GitHub repo →

Parts in order

Each chapter below is one checkpoint in this lab.