While users use domain names to visit most websites, the actual address of the server hosting the site uses an IP address. Domain Name System, or DNS, servers translate domain names and then direct ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

The event for organizations and IT pros known as "Domain Name System Flag Day" will kick off on Friday, Feb. 1, 2019. On that day, DNS providers will start to release new software updates that will ...

In June, Mozilla had announced that they were performing a limited Shield study for their Nightly users to monitor the performance of DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox. This study uses Cloudflare's DNS ...

These are the best free and public DNS servers that make it simple and easy to reduce buffering and tighten your online security by changing your DNS service. Getting the best speeds isn't as simple ...

Since Google decided to launch its own DNS service, we've dug into finding the fastest domain name server and knowing if yours failed. If you're on a GNOME-based Linux system, you can also try any DNS ...

The Domain Name System depends on hierarchical organization and authority. It was first successfully tested 25 years ago today. __1983: __ Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel run the first successful test ...