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

As Brien recently discovered, a glitch in Azure can cause a virtual machine to fail when it's manually configured to use a specific DNS server. Here's how the problem went down and how he fixed it.

A Domain Name System server maps host names, or domain names, to IP addresses. When a computer attempts to connect to another PC over a network using a host name, such as www.google.com, the ...

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 ...

Simply download the ZIP file and double-click the application to launch it. A good feature about Public DNS Server Tool is that it’s not cluttered. Also, its simple User Interface makes the ...

Your DNS server settings need to be changed so that it points to 138.37.216.10 and 138.37.217.10 which are the Cisco Umbrella DNS resolvers. Instructions on how to do this are below. Please select the ...

Changing the DNS can sometimes resolve issues with your connection, along with other benefits. This is how it works. If some sites are taking too long to load on your iOS device, changing the DNS ...

DNS, also known as Domain Name System, put simply is like a phonebook. It’s an internet system that helps your device find the location of a website by matching a domain such as Google.com into a ...

it's been a while, i've missed you guys. so, for my return, a simple (or so one would think) question...<BR><BR>i've been asked by a friend to help her move her dns servers (ns1 and ns2) from one ip ...

Each time you open a browser and type in a web address, there’s a hidden hand sending all the information to your PC to render the page as it should. Those middle-men of your newly loaded webpage are ...