I ensure that my home lab has clients on my internal network, which are responsive and not exposed externally.

I tend to use them rather sparingly, and the last time I used Nginx was for a college project where I had to map some domain ...

I think I made a local domain server, but I'm not sure. I'm doing it by reading DNS and Bind. I made A records and PTR records for zones. When I type a domain without the dot, I can get IP information ...