Nearly everything on the internet begins with a Domain Name System (DNS) request. When you click a link on a website or send an email, the first thing your device does is consult a DNS to find out ...

Cloudflare’s alternative DNS server, 1.1.1.2, now offers built-in filtering to block known malicious domains at the network level, preventing connections to phishing and malware sites. The service ...

Cloudflare is great… until it isn’t.

Cloudflare is an old hand at speeding up corporate internet services with its content delivery network (CDN). The company is also a pro at blocking Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Now, ...

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A non-networked computer is very rare now because most useful work involves data and services that are distributed across some kind of "internet" — that is, any network that speaks IP, public or ...

In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

The upside can be better performance and resiliency with a down side of dire business impact if the DNS service provider suffers a catastrophic outage. As enterprises consider outsourcing their IT ...

Accessing the internet on your Windows computer is a complex process, and the DNS Client Service is crucial to the process. This service facilitates DNS resolution for servers you repeatedly visit by ...