So I´m playing IT admin for the school where I work. We have a pretty basic setup here, but even that is proving to be beyond me. Our network has an IPCop firewall and caching server, behind which is ...

We replaced our old router (Linksys BEFSR11) with a new Netgear (RP614v.4). We're on a domain. The new router was set up just like the old one. The router is set to get DNS automatically (from the ISP ...

Matthew Sparby writes: "Lately I've been noticing problems with my PowerBook experiencing odd moments of lag when I use it on my home network. This slowdown doesn't occur at the office, however. I ...

What is the DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN error on Google Chrome? The DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN error occurs when the browser cannot find the IP address for the ...

RTO means big outages can still happen The cause of major internet outages is often the domain name system (DNS) and/or ...

Since January 29th, Windows 10 users have been reporting problems connecting to Windows Update. Microsoft has confirmed that this was caused by DNS corruption at an external DNS provider that was ...

Nearly a month after a critical flaw in the Internet’s Domain Name System was first reported, vendors of some of the most widely used firewall software are scrambling to fix a problem that can ...

After a two hour DNS outage that crippled many internet services, Akamai is now reporting that it has found and fixed the problem. Akamai runs the Edge DNS service, and earlier on Thursday, the ...

Attacks related to Domain Name System infrastructure – such as DNS hijacking, DNS tunneling and DNS amplification attacks – are on the rise, and many IT organizations are questioning the security of ...

Meet Paul Mockapetris. He may not be an industry celebrity like Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Richard Stallman, Eric Raymond, or Linus Torvalds, but he should be. Mockapetris was a key figure in the ...

Nearly a month after a critical flaw in the Internet’s Domain Name System was first reported, vendors of some of the most widely used firewall software packages are scrambling to fix a problem that ...