The Domain Name Service is what I call a “dense” protocol. I call it dense because there is so much to DNS that it has resulted in many books being written solely on DNS, what it is, and what it does.

How do Active Directory domains relate to DNS subdomains? I've gotten myself confused. We're expanding out from the corporate office to new facilities. The first thing that comes to mind is to create ...

Steve Thamasett is a Senior Security Solutions Architect at CDW•G. Steve is a senior executive with over 20 years of experience covering all aspects of IT infrastructure, policy and planning, business ...

The internet can be a double-edged sword. Although it’s obviously opened up worlds of possibility, to put it mildly, it’s also made it easier for harmful material to proliferate and created a whole ...

I pretty much understand DNS and what it does. From my understanding, as long as there isn't a DNS server on the network then if I type \\somecomputername\ into explorer then I shouldn't be able to ...

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Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 ...

As CTO of InfoWorld, I have to admit that I spend more time than most CTOs on the bleeding edge of technology pondering the next big thing. A few years ago, all the Web services talk around the office ...

If the WiFi is running slowly, people do all sorts of things with their routers. Sometimes they change the router's location, sometimes they wrap foil around its antenna. It's worth noting that to ...

No matter how big the broadband pipe you use to surf the Web, it’s not big enough. Everyone, whether they use a slowpoke dial-up modem or the fastest FiOS line, wants to surf faster. There’s a simple ...