A DNS server – short for Domain Name System server – helps your web browser connect to the internet and load websites properly.

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...

DNS failure is a failure to communicate between your device and a DNS server. When a DNS failure occurs, you can't reach the internet address you wanted to reach. As a viewer, this might mean you ...

A Domain Name System error that originated from Amazon's largest and oldest data center took down major sites Monday. The ...

Whether it’s a digital exploit or a physical break-in, every entryway into your hospital systems must be secured; DNS is no ...

For too long, we've treated DNS as a simple utility. It's just a phonebook for the internet, right? Treating it that way is a mistake. Nearly every single ...

In an effort to detect whether a network will hijack DNS queries, Google's Chrome browser and its Chromium-based brethren randomly conjures up three domain names between 7 and 15 characters to test, ...

I set up a DNS server with BIND on my ESXi home lab running on a Dell server. I also setup a secondary DNS server which is a slave to the primary, also a VM on the Dell. On the secondary, in ...

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing DNS outage affecting customers worldwide, preventing them from accessing Microsoft ...

Amazon says a major DNS failure was behind a massive AWS (Amazon Web Services) outage that took down many websites and online ...

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