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 ...

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 ...

There may be times when Internet access seems to crawl, even when you are connected through a broadband connection and do not have other people on your network using bandwidth. Topher, an avid Mac ...

Every device and app we use that connects to the Internet uses DNS to figure out where to route data. We trust our browsers with an enormous amount of personal information, and while much of that is ...

This past weekend, my ISP Comcast had a bizarre outage, during which I could ping my chosen DNS servers fine, but wasn't able to actually resolve anything. This prompted me to search for a caching DNS ...

I have a complex personal network; there's basically three locations, each with its own DHCP/DNS setup (dnsmasq). Each network has a 10.x.y.0/24 network and a subdomain out of internal.example.com ...