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, ...

My 6 favorite DNS services - and why they're a must for security ...

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 ...

The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the most important, yet lesser-known aspects of browsing the internet. In a nutshell, it’s responsible for converting a domain name (like google.com) to an IP ...

If you are new to DNS server knowledge, you probably didn’t know that you can change the DNS servers you use when browsing the internet. You might want to do this for a variety of reasons, including ...

I'm just starting to try and make my job a bit easier at work and I am trying to create simple scripts for my more mundane tasks. One such task is setting up and configure DNS zones on our two ...

Many DNS servers are wrongly configured or running out-of-date software, leaving them vulnerable to malicious attacks, according to a survey published on Monday.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