If you've heard or seen the term DNS or DNS server on your computer, you may be wondering what it means, and how it affects ...

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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, ...

(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 ...

Mozilla continues to bring improvements to its private browsing for users. However, the latest news about the company pointed out its most recent Mozilla VPN. The Virtual Private Network (VPN) of ...

Threats surfacing in DNS traffic include protocol anomalies, tunneling, and botnets, according to the latest Infoblox Security Assessment report. In the second quarter of 2016, Infoblox analyzed DNS ...

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, ...

Google's 8.8.8.8 is anycast, so it gets you a nearby DNS server automatically. If your ISPs DNS host is crummy, it probably has better performance. Many times DNS makes a big performance difference in ...

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 ...