Adam Hardy is a former assistant editor at Forbes Advisor, where he covered small business and tech. Previously, he was a staff writer at The Penny Hoarder, specializing in the gig economy and ...

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

The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the foundations of the internet, working in the background to match the names of web sites that people type into a search box with the corresponding IP address, ...

I'm having DNS issues with two of our websites. The project is eliminating our hosting provider and bringing everything in-house. I'm tasked with reconfiguring the nameservers for those domains and ...

Operating systems like Windows 7 have a special text file that is used locally to map IP address to domain or host names. This file is usually called the "hosts" file. The hosts file can be used to ...

This article is for beginners, who have recently get started with the computer and the Internet. If you already know what a DNS server is and how does it work, then please skip this guide because it ...

Want a new domain with Google Apps? Choose Google Domains Your email has been sent Google Domains' synthetic records automate the creation of multiple DNS records. Andy Wolber explains. Inside your ...

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