DNS resolvers play a key role in converting Web links to IP addresses, acting as a link between your computer and the Internet's DNS infrastructure. A DNS resolver is a local server that stores a ...

To understand why DNS failures can be so disruptive, it's helpful to know how the Domain Name System is constructed. The internet contains over 378 million registered domain names, far too many for a ...

Why it matters: DNS is one of the last protocols that run unencrypted on the Internet. Microsoft is trying to fix that on Windows by enabling DNS over HTTPS support. This allows DNS queries to be ...

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 ...

You would have probably come across DNS management while surfing the internet in search of a web hosting platform. DNS is like an address book of the internet. The DNS management system is a system ...

Peter Sunde of Pirate Bay fame has had it. Now that the US government is ordering domain names of copyright infringers to be removed from the global DNS, Sunde has sounded a call to arms to create a ...

Microsoft has unveiled a preview of a system using which it intends to lock down the Domain Name System, the system that translates IP addresses to human-readable domains, on Windows. The system, ...

Market opportunities include the rising demand for secure and high-performing DNS solutions driven by digital expansion, ...

The Domain Name System (DNS) has been around for nearly 40 years, yet surprisingly few organizations understand what a critical security tool it can be. DNS can play many vital security roles on a ...

DNS hijacking – where a device reroutes your messages or takes you to a completely new and fake destination may seem like the stuff of dreams. After all, one might somehow expect that this conversion ...