Have you ever really thought about the importance of DNS to your business? DNS, the Domain Name System, is sometimes called the “phonebook of the Internet.” Just as the phonebook allows you to look up ...

Another great benefit of running your own DNS cache is that it can improve performance when browsing the internet. Most home ...

I think I made a local domain server, but I'm not sure. I'm doing it by reading DNS and Bind. I made A records and PTR records for zones. When I type a domain without the dot, I can get IP information ...

April Fools’ Day commemorates the launch of Cloudflare’s own consumer DNS service, a very real and free DNS service designed by a company that views the buying and selling of personal data as toxic.

In the Aug. 18 issue of Radio World Engineering Extra, I discussed Network Address Translation, in which your router looks at the port numbers on incoming packets and “steers” them toward different IP ...

You’re on the road, it’s the night before your big presentation, and after a long day of travel you fire up your Mac to do a last-minute check on your slides. That’s when you realize that you forgot ...

IP webcams are rapidly falling in price, making them the perfect set-up for use in a low-cost home security system. Nik Rawlinson Nik Rawlinson has been writing about tech since Windows 95 was looking ...

There are numerous reasons why setting up a home VPN makes sense, especially when security and privacy are top concerns. A ...

I set up a small server 2003 domain with 5 machines. One PC is a domain controller and the remaining 4 are windows XP machines.<BR><BR>I set up DNS on the domain controller. The computer name of the ...

On April 1, a company called Cloudflare launched a service that claims to speed up access to websites and provide privacy protection in the process. Cloudflare, which is the in business of boosting ...