The Domain Name System (DNS) is crucial to how your users experience the internet. Each time users need to reach a website, their PC needs to translate whatever they type in an address bar into an IP ...

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- When thousands of Comcast customers in Minnesota lost access to the internet Sunday night, it wasn't because of severe weather or problems with the power grid. It wasn't even a ...

OpenDNS has released a preview of a tool that will encrypt DNS (Domain Name System) requests between a person’s computer and the company’s lookup service, potentially blocking malicious interceptions.

The large attack causing intermittent outages across the web today highlights a crucial point of the internet structure that often goes unconsidered outside of IT circles. Often the easiest way to ...

Anyone who's decided to replace their ISP router with something more secure knows the value of ensuring your home network and the traffic on it is private. Even if you haven't changed the router, you ...

When using a telent server on a LAN with DHCP, is it necessary to have a local DNS eg BIND?<P>All PCs (W98) on the LAN use DHCP (served by a dial-up ISDN router) which assigns IPs to them and also ...

OpenDNS has released a preview of a tool that will encrypt DNS (Domain Name System) requests between a person’s computer and the company’s lookup service, potentially blocking malicious interceptions.