Microsoft says a mishap during a DNS migration was behind a nearly two-hour Azure outage on May 2, between 19:43 and 22:35 UTC. The global incident impacted a whole range of Microsoft cloud services, ...

I just upgraded a win nt 4 pdc to a w2k box and installed active directory. I also installed DHCP and DNS on it. The DHCP server is giving out IPs just fine, but for some reason DNS isn't getting (or ...

VeriSign has implemented an enhancement, called “rapid updates,” to its .com and .net Domain Name System (DNS) servers. Previously, VeriSign updated DNS servers for .com and .net twice each day by ...

When I joined the company, I noted that a lot of name lookups were failing or pointing at the wrong machines. I also noted a staggering amount of old, outdated DNS records. Scavenging appeared to be ...

DNS is the Internet’s naming service. DNS maps the names of hosts to their IP addresses, letting users locate Web sites and mail servers. Traditionally, network administrators manually updated DNS ...

Starting in late January, Windows 10 users began reporting that when they tried to perform an update, Windows would state that it could not connect to the Windows Update service. At the time, ...

Dynamic updates (detailed in the RFC 2136 standard document) mean that when systems change their IP address, the DNS database will be automatically updated with this information. With an ADI zone, ...

That outage left some Windows users in the US and UK unable to get security, software, and operating system updates from Microsoft's update service. The issue affected Microsoft's update service for ...

Thanks to an update to its Route 53 DNS web service, Amazon now makes it a bit easier to host sites that need high availability in multiple AWS regions. Route 53 has been offering DNS Failover since ...