Each time you open a browser and type in a web address, there’s a hidden hand sending all the information to your PC to render the page as it should. Those middle-men of your newly loaded webpage are ...

Juliana Kenny is a freelance writer with 13 years of experience covering the technology industry. She has written for technology giants, including Oracle, Hitachi Vantara, and Comcast, and she ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Every networked computer uses a complex system of addresses and protocols to communicate. There are times when these services fail, and it might be appropriate to consider a preferred and alternate ...

A DNS or Domain Name System is one of the most crucial keys to establishing internet connectivity between two different parties — customarily, a client and a server. It acts as a directory, with ...

Today, half of America’s internet shut down when hackers unleashed a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the servers of Dyn, a major DNS host. It’s still unclear exactly who carried ...

DNS server isn't responding,' 'DNS lookup failed,' 'NXDOMAIN' and 'DNS resolution timeout' are just some of the possible ways your browser or internet-enabled device tells you there is a DNS failure.

Best VPN for 2025: Our Top 10 Favorite VPN Services What is Smart DNS, How Does It Work and Why Use It? So, you’ve tried to watch your favorite shows on streaming platforms, only to hit a wall with ...

If the DNS server is not able to create a new DNS Zone, and you see Event ID 504 in the Event Viewer of your Windows computer, execute the solutions mentioned below: Often, information for the zone ...

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 ...