Operating systems like Windows 7 have a special text file that is used locally to map IP address to domain or host names. This file is usually called the "hosts" file. The hosts file can be used to ...

The march toward SSL everywhere continues. While this would have been just about impossible before 2004 due to the one IP per SSL certificate restriction and a dwindling pool of IP4 addresses, a new ...

Dynamic DNS, also known as DDNS, or DynDNS, is a very important tool for mapping domain names to IP addresses. It’s all about allowing a single web address to connect to an IP address that is always ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Domain Name Service is what I call a “dense” protocol. I call it dense because there is so much to DNS that it has resulted in many books being written solely on DNS, what it is, and what it does.

Web hosting and domains are both essential to publishing a website. Learn how they work -- and how they work together. Dianna Gunn built her first WordPress website in 2008. Since then, she's poured ...