You can find the hostname of any computer with a public IP address by passing the address to any Domain Name System (DNS) server. However, since the computers on a small business network have private ...

An Internet Protocol address is a series of numbers that points to a location on a network. IP addresses are essential to the operation of the Internet and other types of networks. Usually, we don't ...

It is uncommon, but some sites actually work and run off their IP address, instead of a domain name. DNS, the domain name system, was created to give people an easy way to find a web site, but a ...

This came up in an interview lately and I put forward that as DNS is a distributed database I don't think they would make it more complex and allow certain regional DNS servers give more local IP ...

Ever heard about the term “DNS” when using the Internet? DNS stands for Domain Name System. Before we go ahead and talk about what DNS is and how DNS lookup works, let us understand what the D in the ...

I'm having DNS issues with two of our websites. The project is eliminating our hosting provider and bringing everything in-house. I'm tasked with reconfiguring the nameservers for those domains and ...

When you use the Internet, you use domain name and hostnames all the time. These hostnames and domain names when put together become the Internet address that you search with. The domain name without ...

Although domain controllers can be configured to obtain an IP address from DHCP, it’s best practice to configure a static IP address so that it can be reliably discovered across the network. You may ...