A group of experts has released an open-source alternative to the BIND DNS server software that boasts higher performance and better security than BIND. The new DNS server — dubbed Unbound 1.0 — is ...

GitHub, the online code-sharing and development platform, is introducing a new open source tool to make it easier to create that redundancy. OctoDNS is the system GitHub has been using for a few ...

Massive distributed denial of service attacks on Spamhaus this week focused widespread attention on the huge security threats posed by millions of poorly configured Internet Domain Name System (DNS) ...

A new threat to the internet is multiplying through DNS servers that are more open than they should be, delegates to last month's ICANN Inc.'s Wellington conference and New Zealand Network Operators ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Most people don’t think about DNS at all. I know I didn’t, at least not until I started running into those little internet headaches that never quite go away. You know the ones I'm talking about, ...