The Domain Name Service is what I call a “dense” protocol. I call it dense because there is so much to DNS that it has resulted in many books being written solely on DNS, what it is, and what it does.

Scientists at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UCSD analyzing traffic to one of the 13 Domain Name System (DNS) "root" servers at the heart of the Internet found that the server ...

Is there a reason you can't map the root of an SMB file server as a drive? My router is providing DNS via dnsmasq. As expected, I get a list of all the shares on the file server. I've tried this with ...

Last week we began to discuss the records that DNS servers use to describe their view of the name space they are responsible for. We didn’t get beyond the Start of Authority (SOA) record, but as that ...

After engaging in a recent rash of attacks in retaliation for the takedown of file-sharing site Megaupload, the Anonymous denial of service “cannons” have been firing considerably fewer shells of late ...