If you want to be a sysadmin or network administrator of any kind, there’s a fundamental technology you really need to understand—DNS, the Domain Name System. There was a time when a sysadmin with no ...

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 ...

Every time you type a web address into your browser, a quiet transaction happens before the page ever loads. Your device asks a DNS resolver to translate that human-readable domain into a numeric IP ...

Domain Name System or DNS is a decentralized naming system for all the different websites that exist on the internet. It is one of the essential building blocks of the internet and has been around for ...

When managing network ports, most network pros assume communications use specific transport layer protocols: TCP or User Datagram Protocol. However, DNS is a relatively complex service with many ...

The Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) is a set of specifications that extend the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol by adding cryptographic authentication for responses received from ...

Despite a welcome and needed DNS revamp, preventable abuse continues. The Domain Name System (DNS), known as the phone book for the internet, was recently retuned to improve performance as well as ...

The websites we visit are scattered across a vast, messy web of underground cables, racks of metallic boxes, and a myriad of routers that we’ve come to call the internet. So when you punch in an ...