There are several ways to troubleshoot the DNS on your network or device. First, try pinging a domain with its IP address.

While users use domain names to visit most websites, the actual address of the server hosting the site uses an IP address. Domain Name System, or DNS, servers translate domain names and then direct ...

As we've covered the widespread issue with Safari (and other browsers) not being able to connect on the first try due to DNS issues, we've noted that one of the most successful solutions has been to ...

DNS servers resolve web address names to IP addresses that your computer can use, but problems with these servers may result in performance issues. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has ...

The Domain Name System (DNS) acts like a virtual telephone directory for the Internet. When you type in website names into your browser’s address bar, your device uses DNS to look up the unique IP ...

You can find the hostname of any computer with a public IP address by passing the address to any Domain Name System (DNS) server. However, since the computers on a small business network have private ...

Each domain name of a website, such as TechPP.com, has an IP address associated with it, and in order for a web browser to load one of these websites, it needs to know its IP address, which is ...

I've got something weird going on here. Over the last couple of days, suddenly my name servers (authoritative name servers for several hundred domains and recursive for a large number of users/servers ...

After pledging to “wipe out Twitter,” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ordered Turkish ISPs to block the social networking site, redirecting requests to a government webpage. But that move, ...