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Changing the DNS server your Windows PC or Mac uses is one of the simplest network tweaks that can deliver real-world benefits: faster name resolution, better protection from malicious sites, and increased privacy — and you can switch it for a single device or for your entire home network by...

A subtle change to glibc’s DNS stub resolver has had consequences that administrators and application developers should treat as more than an academic footnote: CVE-2023-4527 is a stack read overflow in getaddrinfo that can be triggered when the resolver is run in no-aaaa mode and a DNS response...

The Hosts file is a tiny plain‑text system file that punches well above its weight: by mapping human‑readable hostnames to IP addresses, it can short‑circuit DNS lookups and control which servers your PC talks to. When the Hosts file is altered—intentionally for testing, by security software, or...

Fix Slow DNS and Browsing: Set DNS, Flush Cache, and Test with nslookup (Win10/11) Difficulty: Intermediate | Time Required: 15 minutes Slow website loading, “DNS server not responding” messages, or delays before a page starts to load are often DNS-related. DNS (Domain Name System) is what turns...

This step-by-step guide distills a practical, production-ready method for installing and configuring the DNS Server role on Windows Server, explains the core DNS concepts you need to operate and secure a DNS infrastructure, and provides hard-won troubleshooting and maintenance guidance so your...

What’s been happening to me is that for a long time—first on Windows 10 and now on Windows 11—I started having an issue where my computer’s wired Ethernet connection suddenly loses internet access, and there’s no way to restore it unless I do one of three things: Restart the computer Restart...

Windows 10’s Network & Internet settings put everything you need to control Wi‑Fi, Ethernet, VPN, proxy, mobile hotspot and repairs behind a single, user-friendly pane — and knowing how to use those tools turns frustrating outages into short troubleshooting sessions. Centralized controls make it...

Microsoft’s cloud fabric suffered a high‑impact interruption that knocked Azure‑fronted web services — including Office 365 admin portals, Xbox/Minecraft authentication, and numerous customer websites — partially offline as engineers traced the root cause to a DNS/routing failure in Azure Front...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone stumbled on Wednesday, knocking Azure-powered services — from Office 365 and Copilot to Xbox Live and multiple airline and retail systems — offline for large swathes of customers as engineers traced the break to a configuration and DNS problem within Azure Front Door...

A wide-ranging outage in Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 cloud region crippled dozens of high‑profile internet services for hours on Monday, knocking streaming platforms, messaging apps, gaming services and even some bank websites offline and refreshing urgent questions about how much of the...

Hi all, last saturday I updated my Windows 11 Home through windows Update and the next day my PC is not able to resolve DNS but can ping outside my LAN (I can also access my local NAS via browser but can't map external drives). I noticed that my DNS Client and Windows Firewall services are...

Kemono failing to load, returning errors, or behaving erratically is frustrating — especially when a quick fix could get you back to browsing in minutes. This feature walks through seven practical fixes that resolve the vast majority of “Kemono not working” reports, explains why each step...

Renaming a Windows 11 PC is one of those tiny housekeeping tasks that pays outsized dividends: it makes devices easier to find on a network, helps you avoid confusion when syncing across accounts, and can even improve basic security by hiding OEM‑style default names. The process is intentionally...

Microsoft’s security advisory for CVE-2025-53809 warns that improper input validation in the Windows Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) can be abused by an authorized attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) over a network, putting authentication services and domain...

If your Windows 11 PC feels sluggish online, the problem is rarely magical — it’s usually fixable with a targeted combination of settings, driver updates, and simple network housekeeping. This guide pulls together the most reliable, up‑to‑date ways to speed up internet on Windows 11, explains...

Fix Intermittent Wi-Fi Drops and Slow Wireless in Windows 10/11 Difficulty: Intermediate | Time Required: 20-30 minutes This step-by-step guide helps you diagnose and fix intermittent Wi‑Fi drops and slow wireless on Windows 10 and Windows 11. It covers quick checks, driver and power settings...

Setting up DNS on a Windows Server is one of the most consequential tasks an administrator can perform: it turns raw IP addresses into human-friendly names, anchors Active Directory functionality, and forms the backbone of service discovery across the network. Proper DNS configuration reduces...

If GoMovies pages won’t load, videos won’t play, or links keep redirecting to ads, these 15 practical fixes walk through the most common causes — from browser cache and extensions to DNS, system time, and network-level blocks — and show exactly how to resolve each one quickly and safely...

Microsoft has updated guidance in its Security Update Guide advisory ADV200013 — the advisory that covers DNS resolver spoofing and cache‑poisoning attacks — and is explicitly telling administrators that in addition to older server builds the mitigation applies to newer releases such as Windows...

The Wplace “500 Internal Server Error” is an HTTP server error that prevents the canvas from loading and blocks actions like placing pixels or signing in; while it usually means something failed on Wplace’s servers, a short, methodical troubleshooting run on the client side will tell you whether...