The recursive DNS infrastructure of the internet has received scant attention and it has been left to individual organisations to maintain and upgrade on a “best-efforts” basis. But now recursive ...

The common way a DNS server is configured to handle requests. The DNS server makes multiple requests to the various DNS servers on the Internet in order to wind up with the actual IP address of the ...

I'm running PiHole at home for ad-blocking, and I'm using Cloudflare as the upstream server. PiHole have a description here of how to add Unbound to the system as a recursive DNS resolver, with the ...

A group of experts has released an open-source alternative to the BIND DNS server software that boasts higher performance and better security than BIND. The new DNS server — dubbed Unbound 1.0 — is ...

I honestly think most people simply are unaware of how much personal data they leak on a daily basis as they use their computers. Even if they have some inkling along those lines, I still imagine many ...

The DNS setup as follows. The reason for the way it is setup is due to a pre-existing network segmentation by 2 PIX firewalls. There is a DNS for each PIX. <BR><BR>The DNS of the internal PIX does ...

A team of academics from Israel has disclosed today details about NXNSAttack, a vulnerability in DNS servers that can be abused to launch DDoS attacks of massive proportions. According to the research ...

You might read that title and ask, “Who needs a new DNS server?” On the other hand, you also might read it and wonder, “What’s a DNS server?” There are a lot of DNS servers out there. There’s BIND, of ...

As enterprises continue their move to multi-cloud environments, data centres are becoming more distributed and security risks are increasing. To address this new environment, EfficientIP – the network ...

New findings by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Google on a malicious DNS-related attack have stirred some debate over whether open recursive DNS servers are inherently insecure ...