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 ...

(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've heard or seen the term DNS or DNS server on your computer, you may be wondering what it means, and how it affects your internet.

Instead of broadcasting your Domain Name System requests in plaintext, DNS over HTTPS encrypts your requests so that they're ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm having DNS issues with two of our websites. The project is eliminating our hosting provider and bringing everything in-house. I'm tasked with reconfiguring the nameservers for those domains and ...

So I am stumbling a little here. I have a Synology DS 1515+ I want to use as local DNS then forward out for other queries. Seems pretty straight forward setup. But doesn't seem to work like I thought.

(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 ...