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

(THE CONVERSATION) When millions of people suddenly couldn’t load familiar websites and apps during the Amazon Web Services, or AWS, outage on Oct. 20, 2025, the affected servers weren’t actually down ...

If you are new to DNS server knowledge, you probably didn’t know that you can change the DNS servers you use when browsing the internet. You might want to do this for a variety of reasons, including ...

We list the best free and public DNS servers, to make it simple and easy to speed up and secure your online browsing, by ...

When users connect to networks with a DHCP server such as those most home routers contain, they are provided with automatic configuration settings that include the essential IP address, network mask, ...

For too long, we've treated DNS as a simple utility. It's just a phonebook for the internet, right? Treating it that way is a mistake. Nearly every single ...

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 ...

In an effort to detect whether a network will hijack DNS queries, Google's Chrome browser and its Chromium-based brethren randomly conjures up three domain names between 7 and 15 characters to test, ...