It’s not everyday that one needs to change the DNS server on Windows 10 but it can be one of the important things that you can do if you’re having trouble browsing websites, pulling up certain ...

When his parents denied him a Super NES, he got mad. When they traded a prize Sega Genesis for a 2400 baud modem, he got even. Years of Internet shareware, eBay'd possessions and video game testing ...

A Domain Name System server maps host names, or domain names, to IP addresses. When a computer attempts to connect to another PC over a network using a host name, such as www.google.com, the ...

A wave of cyberattacks rendered dozens of the biggest websites on the internet inaccessible on Friday—but you don’t have to let the hackers win. Dyn provides Domain Name System (DNS) servers to a wide ...

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.

Network issues are common with Windows systems but are mostly resolvable once you understand the cause. Imagine a situation when your system is connected to the internet and the Wireless icon shows ...

A DNS server – short for Domain Name System server – converts web addresses into IP addresses. Without a DNS server, you won't be able to connect to any websites. If you're having issues with your ...

The Internet Domain Name System translates an alphabetical website address into the numeric Internet Protocol address associated with that site. When, for example, you type "www.examplesite.com" into ...

You might be wondering: DNS servers — why do they even matter? Or, what is a DNS server anyway? Both of these are important question, but in addressing both, a DNS is your access or gateway to the ...

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 ...