Provided a couple of programmers are correct, what started out as an attempt to provide better Domain Name System (DNS) server performance on Windows machines may also be one way to reduce DNS ...
IPv6 took another significant step forward yesterday, as the root DNS zone was updated with IPv6 addresses for six of the 13 root servers. Most root servers are "anycasted:" physical machines are ...
A China-based root DNS server associated with networking problems in Chile and the U.S. has been disconnected from the Internet. The action by the server’s operator, Netnod, appears to have resolved a ...
Ben Khalesi writes about where artificial intelligence, consumer tech, and everyday technology intersect for Android Police. With a background in AI and Data Science, he’s great at turning geek speak ...
The two DNS root servers "badly affected" by last month's intense denial-of-service attack were the only two targeted that have not yet installed the Anycast load balancing technology, according to a ...
Just before year's end, ICANN/IANA sent out a short message saying that "on 4 February 2008, IANA will add AAAA records for the IPv6 addresses of the four root servers whose operators have requested ...
Someone actually tried the impossible on two separate occasions, to take down the internet’s backbone. They did ultimately fail for multiple reasons, but at the same time, they actually got a ...
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, ...
The domain name system--the global directory that maps names to Internet Protocol addresses--was designed to distribute authority, making organizations literally "masters of their own domain." But ...