Provided a couple of programmers are correct, what started out as an attempt to provide better Domain Name System (DNS) server performance on Windows machines may also be one way to reduce DNS ...

In the year since last October’s high-profile attacks on the Internet’s root Domain Name System servers, improvements in load distribution and processing capacity have made the Internet’s core ...

Currently, our Child Domain Domain controllers host the Root Domains DNS zone as a secondary zone. I have considered removing the secondary DNS zones for the root domain from the Child Domain DCs and ...

I'm beggining to think that my understanding of DNS is fundamentally flawed.<BR><BR>We have two domain controllers which, naturally, function as DNS servers for our internal systems. We also have an ...

In an effort to detect whether a network will hijack DNS queries, Google's Chrome browser and its Chromium-based brethren randomly conjures up three domain names between 7 and 15 characters to test, ...

Someone actually tried the impossible on two separate occasions, to take down the internet’s backbone. They did ultimately fail for multiple reasons, but at the same time, they actually got a ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Server racks in server room cloud data center. (Image credit: BigStock/Kwarkot) Every Wednesday ...

An unusual DDoS amplification attack was carried out 10 days ago against many of the Internet’s 13 root name servers, the authoritative servers used to resolve IP addresses. An unusual DDoS ...

A China-based root DNS server associated with networking problems in Chile and the U.S. has been disconnected from the Internet. The action by the server’s operator, Netnod, appears to have resolved a ...

An upcoming campaign announced by the hacking group Anonymous directed against the Internet’s core address lookup system is unlikely to cause much damage, according to one security expert. In a ...