I'm just starting to try and make my job a bit easier at work and I am trying to create simple scripts for my more mundane tasks. One such task is setting up and configure DNS zones on our two ...

The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the most important, yet lesser-known aspects of browsing the internet. In a nutshell, it’s responsible for converting a domain name (like google.com) to an IP ...

Aging is a feature that allows identifying stale DNS records. It actually uses two intervals and a DNS record is considered as stale once both are elapsed. These intervals are: Non-Refresh Interval: ...

The DNS (Domain Name System) server settings on your laptop, phone, or router are your gateway to the web. They convert easy-to-remember domain names into actual internet IP addresses, just like your ...

Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 customers can now configure DNS over HTTPS (DoH) directly from the Settings app starting with the release of Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20185 to Windows ...

Comcast had a massive “outage” on Monday that affected Seattle and the San Francisco Bay Area. Note that “outage” is in quotation marks, because the problem wasn’t with the physical links that made up ...

As Brien recently discovered, a glitch in Azure can cause a virtual machine to fail when it's manually configured to use a specific DNS server. Here's how the problem went down and how he fixed it.

Due to not controlling our network, there are occasions when I need to set a particular computer's network settings differently than what the DHCP server doles out. Or I may need to configure a second ...

Domain Name System (DNS) servers translate human readable host or domain names to numeric IP addresses. Drexel IT Networking manages domain name servers used by the university. At start-up time, most ...

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 ...