A DNS server – short for Domain Name System server – converts web addresses into IP addresses. Without a DNS server, you won't be able to connect to any websites. If you're having issues with your ...

Adam Hardy is a former assistant editor at Forbes Advisor, where he covered small business and tech. Previously, he was a staff writer at The Penny Hoarder, specializing in the gig economy and ...

DNS resolvers play a key role in converting Web links to IP addresses, acting as a link between your computer and the Internet's DNS infrastructure. A DNS resolver is a local server that stores a ...

shows me that of the three nameservers listed, one of them one of them is "bad". It is either a nameserver we no longer have, or perhaps we never had. What I don't understand is what to do about it.

An Internet domain name is a unique name of a server connected to the Internet, such as a Web server, email server or FTP (file transfer) server. Internet domain names are often the name of an ...

Every networked computer uses a complex system of addresses and protocols to communicate. There are times when these services fail, and it might be appropriate to consider a preferred and alternate ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered a flaw in widely used software for locating Internet servers, which could allow the software to be shut down by hackers or even by accident. Such a shutdown would keep Web ...