Researchers from Tsinghua University and the University of California have identified a new method that can be used to conduct DNS cache poisoning attacks. The new discovery revives a 2008 bug that ...

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 ...

Few recent Internet threats have made such a big impact as security researcher Dan Kaminsky's discovery, in 2008, of fundamental flaws in the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol that can be used by ...

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Jack Wallen shows you how to flush the DNS cache on your Ubuntu Servers to avoid DNS-released networking issues. Image: gonin/Adobe Stock Sometimes a network connection doesn’t seem to function how we ...

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Security researchers have found several serious vulnerabilities in dnsmasq, a utility used in many Linux-based systems, especially routers and other IoT devices, to provide DNS services. Attackers can ...

Every time a user types a website URL into their browser, the browser checks a local file (DNS Cache) to see if there is an entry to resolve the website’s IP address. The browser needs the IP address ...

This Linux distro offers an easy DNS switcher - but there's more to it that I like ...