If the DNS server that your business or office is connect to goes down, your network won't be able to route outgoing traffic and all your network connections, such as web traffic, will come to a ...

While users use domain names to visit most websites, the actual address of the server hosting the site uses an IP address. Domain Name System, or DNS, servers translate domain names and then direct ...

Figuring out what's wrong with DNS will go faster if you have a set of troubleshooting steps to follow. Brien Posey shares his approach to isolating the cause of DNS problems. DNS is one of the most ...

so before i try wiping everything and re-installing, i'm going to see if ars can help me with an odd internet/connectivity problem i am having on my pc.<BR><BR>the problem is, i can connect to some ...

I'm running Red Hat 8 here and I just switched from DHCP to a static IP address. Going back to DHCP doesn't fix the problem. Problem:<BR><BR>I can't see the world. When I ping arstechnica.com, it ...

One of my favorite tools for tracking down network problems is a tool called PingPlotter published by Nessoft. I’ve written about PingPlotter several times (the last time in 2011, although it did also ...