Think of your connection like a motorway. Even if you have the fastest car (a good ISP package), a traffic jam (inefficient ...

That assignment points your device’s DNS requests to the router, which in turn relays them to the DNS servers it has configured in its settings.

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

Changing your DNS settings can have all sorts of benefits, from security to speed. But what is DNS exactly, and how does it make the web the way it is today?

Using DNS servers to do their dirty work offers key benefits to attackers. It hides their systems, making it harder for the victim to find the original source of the attack.

Many technologies underlie our internet use, yet we hardly think about them. One of many examples of this is the domain name system (DNS) server. You’ve probably only contemplated DNS servers if ...

Many DNS servers are wrongly configured or running out-of-date software, leaving them vulnerable to malicious attacks, according to a survey published on Monday.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

Assigned DNS server entries in OS X are not editable, and therefore cannot be removed in place of another server.

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 named ...

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 ...