The common way a DNS server is configured to handle requests. The DNS server makes multiple requests to the various DNS servers on the Internet in order to wind up with the actual IP address of the ...

I'm running PiHole at home for ad-blocking, and I'm using Cloudflare as the upstream server. PiHole have a description here of how to add Unbound to the system as a recursive DNS resolver, with the ...

A group of experts has released an open-source alternative to the BIND DNS server software that boasts higher performance and better security than BIND. The new DNS server — dubbed Unbound 1.0 — is ...

STERLING, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR), a trusted, neutral provider of real-time information services, today announced the launch of Neustar UltraRecursive, a high-performance, ...

The DHS and CISA booth at the 2019 RSA conference in San Francisco. (Scoop News Group photo) The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency wants to limit ransomeware, phishing, botnet and ...

I'm confused. I was working on a clients Server 2008 DNS today and removed the dns forwarders so dns would use the root hints instead, and recursion (to external, web dns queries) stopped working ...

If there’s no such thing as a free lunch, how can there be a free service that handles a network management function as critical as DNS? That’s what corporate IT executives are wondering as they ...

Despite the timing, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince would like to emphasize that his company’s latest announcement is not an April Fool’s joke. The security services company is rolling out a new DNS ...

I honestly think most people simply are unaware of how much personal data they leak on a daily basis as they use their computers. Even if they have some inkling along those lines, I still imagine many ...

A team of academics from Israel has disclosed today details about NXNSAttack, a vulnerability in DNS servers that can be abused to launch DDoS attacks of massive proportions. According to the research ...