Yesterday, the DNS root zone was signed. This is an important step in the deployment of DNSSEC, the mechanism that will finally secure the DNS against manipulation by malicious third parties. The ...

The U.S. government is soliciting input on a way to make the Internet’s addressing system less susceptible to tampering by hackers. Under the idea, records in the DNS root zone would be ...

Currently, our Child Domain Domain controllers host the Root Domains DNS zone as a secondary zone. I have considered removing the secondary DNS zones for the root domain from the Child Domain DCs and ...

Chris: I have a development Windows 2000 domain, with DNS installed on the domain controller. The domain name is TOSESC.COM. I'm unable to access or resolve the Internet using this DNS. When I checked ...

Stub zones can beef up your DNS infrastructure. Here’s a practical guide to when and how to use them. In a previous DNS column, I briefly covered a new feature in Windows 2003 called stub zones. A ...

The internet has a huge security problem that's temporarily fixed with bent paperclips and some gaffer's tape. Without concerted effort, hackers could easily spoil what little confidence remains in ...

Leading Internet security authorities and vendors call for rapid deployment of security and authentication mechanisms at top level of DNS hierarchy Internet security gurus and leading vendors are ...

The U.S. government is seeking input on a way to make the Internet’s addressing system less susceptible to tampering by hackers. Under the idea, records in the Domain Name System (DNS) root zone would ...