Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) is the first hop between you and the internet. Each time you connect, you pass information to your ISP, including domain names, IP addresses, connection timestamps ...

I've always ended up needing to install something like openwrt on my routers. I'm not particularly interested in continuing to need to do that as this seems like an obvious feature people might need ...

Is it weird to say that DNS is my favorite protocol? Because DNS is my favorite protocol. There's something about the simplicity of UDP packets combined with the power of a service that the entire ...

I think I made a local domain server, but I'm not sure. I'm doing it by reading DNS and Bind. I made A records and PTR records for zones. When I type a domain without the dot, I can get IP information ...

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 ...

I may have a fairly reliable home lab now, but my early tinkering days were fraught with beginner mistakes. While it’s a bit ...

Matthew Sparby writes: "Lately I've been noticing problems with my PowerBook experiencing odd moments of lag when I use it on my home network. This slowdown doesn't occur at the office, however. I ...

When you type 'pcmag.com' in the address bar, it’s no surprise that the browser quickly displays PCMag’s latest articles and reviews. But getting from your request to the page you seek isn’t as simple ...

When you enter a URL into the browser address bar and press Enter, your computer must know which IP address you want to connect to. Every URL has a corresponding IP address that only machines can ...

The recent AWS and Microsoft outages were reminders that the modern internet, an ecosystem of billions of connections, services, and devices, still ...