The Internet has roots reaching back to the late 1950s, but the World Wide Web wasn't made publicly accessible until 1993. We now rely on the global network for everything from basic communication to ...

You may have noticed a setting on Android called Private DNS. It's on by default, and you're best off leaving it that way.

In a twist on distributed denial-of-service attacks, cybercriminals are using DNS servers--the phonebooks of the Internet--to amplify their assaults and disrupt online business. Earlier this year, ...

DNS resolvers play a key role in converting Web links to IP addresses, acting as a link between your computer and the Internet's DNS infrastructure. A DNS resolver is a local server that stores a ...

Each time you open a browser and type in a web address, there’s a hidden hand sending all the information to your PC to render the page as it should. Those middle-men of your newly loaded webpage are ...

DNS works as the telephone directory for the Internet, and when it works, it's seamless to the user. But along with the growing move to self-host services comes a push to run DNS servers at home, ...

There has been a long history of attacks on the Domain Name System ranging from brute-force denial-of-service attacks to targeted attacks requiring specialized software. In July 2008 a new DNS ...

I'm having DNS issues with two of our websites. The project is eliminating our hosting provider and bringing everything in-house. I'm tasked with reconfiguring the nameservers for those domains and ...

DNS or Domain Name Server is a service that resolves website address to IP address. The latter is the physical address of the computer from which anything is served on the internet. A DNS that ...

You might read that title and ask, “Who needs a new DNS server?” On the other hand, you also might read it and wonder, “What’s a DNS server?” There are a lot of DNS servers out there. There’s BIND, of ...