The Internet has roots reaching back to the late 1950s, but the World Wide Web wasn't made publicly accessible until 1993. We now rely on the global network for everything from basic communication to ...

A DNS server – short for Domain Name System server – converts web addresses into IP addresses. Without a DNS server, you won't be able to connect to any websites. If you're having issues with your ...

DNS works in the background, and it's not something the average internet user will need to worry about much. But without it, your browser wouldn’t know where to point your web page request, and ...

There has been a long history of attacks on the Domain Name System ranging from brute-force denial-of-service attacks to targeted attacks requiring specialized software. In July 2008 a new DNS ...

There may be times when Internet access seems to crawl, even when you are connected through a broadband connection and do not have other people on your network using bandwidth. Topher, an avid Mac ...

Google’s public DNS is a free, global domain name system resolution service available for you to use instead of your current DNS provider. Having given an overview of how DNS servers work, it’s worth ...

Remote management of DNS server functionality using RPC will be disabled. DNS management tools, will fail to work remotely. Local and remote management through terminal services can be still used to ...