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 ...

Your ISP's DNS servers are likely the fastest due to their proximity to you. If you don't want to use them, try a DNS ...

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 ...

DNS failure is a failure to communicate between your device and a DNS server. When a DNS failure occurs, you can't reach the ...

Too many DNS servers enable bad actors to hijack them for DDoS attacks. Here's how to ensure you're not a party to destructive mischief It seems like ancient history now, but in the early decades of ...

How to install the Unbound DNS resolver on Ubuntu 22.04 Your email has been sent Unbound is a free and open-source recursive and validating DNS caching server, which uses DNS-over-TLS and ...

DNSSEC enhances the security of DNS by using cryptographic signatures to validate DNS responses, ensuring their authenticity and integrity. It protects against common threats like DNS spoofing and ...

When you attempt to run CMD shortcuts from non-standard locations, you may receive ‘DNS Server not authoritative for this zone’ message. It may also prevent and prevent you from executing an important ...

Jack Wallen shows you how to flush the DNS cache on your Ubuntu Servers to avoid DNS-released networking issues. Image: gonin/Adobe Stock Sometimes a network connection doesn’t seem to function how we ...