When you enter a Web address into your browser, one of the first things your PC does is contact a domain name server to get routing information for the address. In most cases your PC sends DNS ...

You can change which DNS server your devices use which could help you get a faster, more secure internet connection in the process. Reading time 6 minutes The DNS (Domain Name System) server settings ...

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 ...

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My older kid was trying to apply for college at a university in Florida. Perversely, its website refused to appear. He tried Safari, Firefox, and Chrome on his Mac and Safari on his iPhone. Only his ...

While network devices establish communication through unique numerical addresses, servers are usually assigned a name to make networking more user-friendly. The Domain Name System, or DNS, is needed ...

But performance goes beyond resolver response time. When NextDNS blocks unnecessary domains, it reduces the number of outbound connections your system makes, resulting in less background noise. Even ...

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 ...

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A group of attackers managed to compromise 300,000 home and small-office wireless routers, altering their settings to use rogue DNS servers, according to Internet security research organization Team ...