While users use domain names to visit most websites, the actual address of the server hosting the site uses an IP address. Domain Name System, or DNS, servers translate domain names and then direct ...

Do you ever wonder how you can click a link on a webpage and quickly zip to another page on a server halfway around the world? Or send an email message to aunt Alice or uncle Bob, using just their ...

My older kid was trying to apply for college at a university in Florida. Perversely, its website refused to appear. He tried Safari, Firefox, and Chrome on his Mac and Safari on his iPhone. Only his ...

Your ISP's DNS servers are likely the fastest due to their proximity to you. If you don't want to use them, try a DNS benchmark tool to find the fastest for you. Consider DNS providers like Google, ...

The F-Secure Router Checker is a free and instant way to see if your router has potentially been hijacked by criminals. When you type www.thewindowsclub.com in your browser address bar, your computer ...

The DNSSEC protocol will bring improved security to the internet but also larger packet sizes. Before you run into problems, you can check that your resolver is able to cope with these larger packets, ...

Microsoft made available on August 5 another new Windows 10 Dev Channel (former Fast Ring) feature update test build. Build 20185 adds some IT pro/business features, plus a bunch of fixes. In Build ...

I'm having DNS issues with two of our websites. The project is eliminating our hosting provider and bringing everything in-house. I'm tasked with reconfiguring the nameservers for those domains and ...

In June, Mozilla had announced that they were performing a limited Shield study for their Nightly users to monitor the performance of DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox. This study uses Cloudflare's DNS ...