Recently, my web-hosting provider fell off the face of the planet.<BR><BR>Seriously, one day it was fine, the next day their whole operation seemed to have just vanished. Phone number disconnected, no ...

The Address (A) record associates a domain name or subdomain with an IP address, which is the primary purpose of the DNS system. The @ sign identifies "this domain;" for example, A @ nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn ...

Earlier this month we discussed how special DNS resource records called SRV (service locator) records help Windows systems find domain controllers so they can authenticate to the domain. Interestingly ...

Hackers are stashing malware in a place that’s largely out of the reach of most defenses—inside domain name system (DNS) records that map domain names to their corresponding numerical IP addresses.

QuickDNS 3.5 from Men&Mice provides a simple solution to DNS management, eliminating the need to edit domain configuration files manually. One of the most complicated tasks to perform in Linux is ...