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

When users connect to networks with a DHCP server such as those most home routers contain, they are provided with automatic configuration settings that include the essential IP address, network mask, ...

You can change which DNS server your devices use which could help you get a faster, more secure internet connection in the process. Reading time: Reading time 6 minutes The DNS (Domain Name System) ...

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 ...

I set up a DNS server with BIND on my ESXi home lab running on a Dell server. I also setup a secondary DNS server which is a slave to the primary, also a VM on the Dell. On the secondary, in ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When millions of people suddenly couldn’t load familiar websites and apps during the Amazon Web Services, or AWS, outage on Oct. 20, 2025, the affected servers weren’t actually down ...

Domain Name System or the DNS system is an Internet service that converts domain names into numerical Internet protocol (IP) addresses. These numerical IP addresses are used by computers to connect ...

Our network is protected by a firewall but my predecessor put both the primary and secondary DNS servers that resolve our domains to the outside world outside of the firewall protecting our network.

Hundreds of thousands of Internet servers are at risk of an attack that would redirect unknowing Web surfers from legitimate sites to malicious ones. In a scan of 2.5 million so-called Domain Name ...

As Brien recently discovered, a glitch in Azure can cause a virtual machine to fail when it's manually configured to use a specific DNS server. Here's how the problem went down and how he fixed it.

The DNSChanger malware servers that were converted by the FBI's Operation Ghost Click to function legitimately will be shut down in March, possibly leaving some systems unable to access the Internet.

Many DNS servers are wrongly configured or running out-of-date software, leaving them vulnerable to malicious attacks, according to a survey published on Monday. The Measurement Factory, an Internet ...