Networking Guides

Networking Guides

Practical guides on IP addresses, DNS, VPN, network security, and how the internet works — written for everyone from beginners to network engineers.

These guides explain the underlying technology behind what ip-tracker.eu shows you — how IP addresses are allocated, how DNS translates names to addresses, what ASNs and BGP are, and how email security works. Each guide is self-contained and links to the live tool so you can see concepts in action.

// IP Addresses & Networks

IP Fundamentals 5 min read
What is an IP Address?
IPv4 vs IPv6, public vs private, static vs dynamic, CIDR notation, and how RIRs allocate address space.
Networking 6 min read
What is an ASN?
Autonomous System Numbers, BGP routing, how internet traffic finds its path, and how to look up any ASN.
Geolocation 5 min read
IP Geolocation Explained
How IP geolocation works, why it's often inaccurate, what affects precision, and how databases like MaxMind are built.

// DNS & Domains

DNS 6 min read
How Does DNS Work?
The 7-step DNS resolution process, record types (A, MX, TXT, SOA, CNAME), TTL, DNS-over-HTTPS, and DNSSEC.
WHOIS 5 min read
What is WHOIS?
Domain registration data, RDAP as the modern WHOIS replacement, privacy protection, and how to interpret WHOIS output.

// Privacy & Security

Privacy 8 min read
What is a VPN?
How VPNs change your IP address, VPN protocols (WireGuard, OpenVPN, IKEv2), kill switch, and what VPNs cannot protect.
Privacy 7 min read
What is a Proxy Server?
HTTP vs SOCKS5 proxies, transparent vs elite anonymity levels, residential vs datacenter proxies, and proxy vs VPN.
Email Security 7 min read
Email Security: SPF, DKIM & DMARC
How email authentication works, how to configure SPF and DMARC records, and how to check any domain's email security.

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