A DNS server – short for Domain Name System server – helps your web browser connect to the internet and load websites ...

For more than four days, a server at the very core of the Internet’s domain name system was out of sync with its 12 root server peers due to an unexplained glitch that could have caused stability and ...

When you query a root name server for an address, it will only answer with a list of name servers that are authoratative for that domain - in effect saying "I don't know, but this guy does - go bug ...