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What the heck is DNS over HTTPS and why does everyone keep arguing about it?

Instead of broadcasting your Domain Name System requests in plaintext, DNS over HTTPS encrypts your requests so that they're ...
Gizmodo

What is Smart DNS, How Does It Work and Why Use It?

Best VPN for 2025: Our Top 10 Favorite VPN Services What is Smart DNS, How Does It Work and Why Use It? So, you’ve tried to watch your favorite shows on streaming platforms, only to hit a wall with ...
Forbes

Old Technology, New Tricks: Why DNS Is Still A Major Security Target

In the early days of networking, if you wanted to send a message from one machine to another, you manually entered the IP address. This quickly became unsustainable as the network grew and heaps of ...

What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel

(THE CONVERSATION) When millions of people suddenly couldn’t load familiar websites and apps during the Amazon Web Services, or AWS, outage on Oct. 20, 2025, the affected servers weren’t actually down ...
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What Is DNS Failure? (And How To Fix It)

DNS server isn't responding,' 'DNS lookup failed,' 'NXDOMAIN' and 'DNS resolution timeout' are just some of the possible ways your browser or internet-enabled device tells you there is a DNS failure.
Ars Technica

Hackers exploit a blind spot by hiding malware inside DNS records

Hackers are stashing malware in a place that’s largely out of the reach of most defenses—inside domain name system (DNS) records that map domain names to their corresponding numerical IP addresses.