A while ago, I explained DNS to a friend who didn't really understand it by comparing it to Pokémon.When you look up DNS on ...

Internet users' experience highly depends on how efficiently the Domain Name Server (DNS) works while browsing the internet. The DNS converts human-understandable domain names to ...

I always treated secondary DNS as a pretty inconsequential setting. You either leave it alone entirely or fill it once and then forget about it for the rest of time. You pick a primary server, pick a ...

When millions of people suddenly couldn’t load familiar websites and apps during the Amazon Web Services, or AWS, outage on Oct. 20, 2025, the affected servers weren’t actually down. The problem was ...

Domain name system or DNS attacks have persisted as a popular method for carrying out distributed denial-of-service attacks. DNS plays a crucial role in cybersecurity, mapping domain names and IP ...

When managing network ports, most network pros assume communications use specific transport layer protocols: TCP or User Datagram Protocol. However, DNS is a relatively complex service with many ...

Each domain name of a website, such as TechPP.com, has an IP address associated with it, and in order for a web browser to load one of these websites, it needs to know its IP address, which is ...

HI! I'm Elliot Alexander, a London-based Computer Scientist with a background in software engineering. I've worked across the security and high-performance computing space, and am experienced in all ...

Name resolution is an essential part of modern networks. Name resolution services relate names, which are easy for people to remember, with IP addresses that are more difficult to remember. Name ...

Sometimes, things do turn out better than you anticipate ...

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 ...