Your computer is not a black box - Understanding Processes and Ports on Windows by exploring

1 · Scott Hanselman · April 16, 2019, 5:19 a.m.
I did a blog post many years ago reminding folks that The Internet is not a Black Box. Virtually nothing is hidden from you. The same is true for your computer, whether it runs Linux, Mac, or Windows. Here's something that happened today at lunch. I was testing a local DNS Server (more on this on Thursday) and I started it up...and it didn't work. In order to test a DNS server on Windows, you can go to the command line and run "nslookup" then use the command "server 1.1.1.1" where 1.1.1.1 is the...