Ars Technica

DNS Delegation/Zone Transfer Dilemma

I'm currently working on coming up with a workable DNS design for a newly-redesigned Active Directory at a .edu. Currently, other AD projects on campus are running DNS with dynamic updates on the ...
PC Magazine

What Is DNS? Everything You Need to Know About the Web's Phone Book

What Is DNS, Anyway? Simply put, Domain Name System (DNS) is the phone book of the internet. It’s the system that converts website domain names (hostnames) into numerical values (IP address) so they ...

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 ...
Ars Technica

Changed subnet on network. Reverse lookup zone not populating.

Interesting, not only am I missing the reverse zones (unless I manually create something in a forward zone and create the associated PTR record) but I am also missing my exchange records, even the A ...
WKYT

Good Question: What is DNS and why is it keeping me from getting online?

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) — Today’s Good Question is: What is DNS and why is it keeping me from getting online? DNS stands for Domain Name System, commonly referred to as the internet’s phonebook. RELATED ...