The Address (A) record associates a domain name or subdomain with an IP address, which is the primary purpose of the DNS system. The @ sign identifies "this domain;" for example, A @ nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn ...

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed database that contains resource records in the zone files within its DNS servers. A zone is a part of the DNS name space that is ...

Microsoft says a mishap during a DNS migration was behind a nearly two-hour Azure outage on May 2, between 19:43 and 22:35 UTC. The global incident impacted a whole range of Microsoft cloud services, ...

The internet runs on protocols that most people never think about. DNS, the Domain Name System, is one of them. It quietly powers everything from checking your email to streaming your favorite show.

The cyberattack that resulted in nytimes.com and some other high-profile websites being inaccessible to a large number of users Tuesday started with a targeted phishing attack against a reseller for ...

Hosting provider LeaseWeb became the latest high-profile company to have its domain name taken over by attackers, highlighting that DNS (Domain Name System) hijacking is a significant threat, even to ...

Released with Windows 2000 and later versions, Nslookup is a command-line tool that lets you test and troubleshoot Domain Name System (DNS) resolution. To start nslookup, open a command prompt and ...

Anyone familiar with the built-in O365 dns and how to export the records? Trying to find some guidance on what service to connect to, and what commands can even export the DNS records to a csv. I'm ...

Businesses can create a sender policy framework (SPF) record on a domain to detect email spoofing and block spam. The SPF record defines authorized mail servers in the domain name system; if the ...