And passenger’s DNS requests turned up to use a significant part of that bandwith. The sysop of the ship immediately looked into the case and found – he could not stop it.

Now your DNS requests will be more private, and once you've browsed to a website once, faster on every subsequent visit. I hosted my own DNS server using my NAS, ...

To save time, DNS requests don't use the "three-way handshake" of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) to make all these queries. Instead, DNS typically uses the User Datagram Protocol (UDP ...

The idea of also encrypting DNS requests isn’t exactly new, with the first attempts starting in the early 2000s, in the form of DNSCrypt, DNS over TLS (DoT), and others.

They aren’t standard practice for a VPN provider to offer because DNS requests aren’t covered under your VPN connection by default. However, if you stick to your default settings, you’re ...

As part of the design of the Internet, DNS requests are sent in clear text between a user and their DNS provider, wrote David Ulevitch, the founder and CEO of OpenDNS. That makes the DNS requests ...

The DNS-over-HTTPS protocol works by sending DNS requests to special DoH-compatible DNS resolvers. The benefit comes from the fact that DNS requests are sent via port 443, as encrypted HTTPS ...

This ensures that you’ve always got a way to route DNS requests without compromising your privacy. You can even set up communication via DNS over TLS to make sure your requests are encrypted.

If DNS resolution seems sluggish, then I'll troubleshoot further. Also, if you do an ipconfig /all, look to see what your DNS servers are, and check all of them.

ICANN on Tuesday condemned the practice of redirecting Internet users to a third-party Web site or portal when they misspell a Web address and type a domain name that does not exist.

A bug in this feature caused DNS requests of users not to be directed to ExpressVPN's infrastructure, as they should, but to the user's internet service provider (ISP).