Personally, one of the main reasons I like to run my own DNS server at home is to protect my privacy. DNS isn't encrypted by ...

If you're new to DNS, the easiest way to understand it is to compare it to a phone book. DNS is the phone book of the internet, except we don’t get to choose what number gets listed. Most of us let ...

My ISP is getting so heavily subscribed that i was wondering if it would be beneficial to not use the ISP DNS servers for DNS lookup and instead point my Lan to the main route DNS server they use ...

As we've covered the widespread issue with Safari (and other browsers) not being able to connect on the first try due to DNS issues, we've noted that one of the most successful solutions has been to ...

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 ...

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In this day and age, it's simple and popular to have someone else change your oil, grow your vegetables, remodel your house and host your services. However, I'd argue that it's far more rewarding, ...

Do you ever wonder how you can click a link on a webpage and quickly zip to another page on a server halfway around the world? Or send an email message to aunt Alice or uncle Bob, using just their ...

DNS Hijacking is a major issue in the connected world. Every unique instance you type an address into your address bar your internet-connected device makes a request to a DNS server to get the actual ...

As Brien recently discovered, a glitch in Azure can cause a virtual machine to fail when it's manually configured to use a specific DNS server. Here's how the problem went down and how he fixed it.