Internet users' experience highly depends on how efficiently the Domain Name Server (DNS) works while browsing the internet. The DNS converts human-understandable domain names to ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Most of our work and entertainment today depend on digital platforms, and it gets annoying when we cannot access the internet due to various errors. One of those frustrating errors is "DNS server not ...

My older kid was trying to apply for college at a university in Florida. Perversely, its website refused to appear. He tried Safari, Firefox, and Chrome on his Mac and Safari on his iPhone. Only his ...

Cloudflare is an old hand at speeding up corporate internet services with its content delivery network (CDN). The company is also a pro at blocking Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Now, ...

Jack Wallen shows you how to flush the DNS cache on your Ubuntu Servers to avoid DNS-released networking issues. Image: gonin/Adobe Stock Sometimes a network connection doesn’t seem to function how we ...

Your ISP's DNS servers are likely the fastest due to their proximity to you. If you don't want to use them, try a DNS ...

DNSSEC enhances the security of DNS by using cryptographic signatures to validate DNS responses, ensuring their authenticity and integrity. It protects against common threats like DNS spoofing and ...

Too many DNS servers enable bad actors to hijack them for DDoS attacks. Here's how to ensure you're not a party to destructive mischief It seems like ancient history now, but in the early decades of ...

DNS over TLS or DoT is an encrypted DNS protocol. It is considered an alternative to DNS over HTTPS (DoH). In this post, we will see how you can enable DNS over TLS in Windows 11 and what this ...