Down and out for hour, claims CDN biz. No, say users, more like three There was a disturbance in the force on July 14 after Cloudflare borked a configuration change that resulted in an outage, ...

Nobody thinks of running a website without HTTPs. Safer DNS still seems optional Systems Approach Last week I turned on ...

Cloudflare has launched iOS and Android applications for its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver service, which it claims makes the internet both faster and more private. Installing and enabling it takes just a ...

Open and misconfigured DNS (Domain Name System) resolvers are increasingly used to amplify distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to a report released Wednesday by HostExploit, an ...

Agencies would be able to query their DNS histories using the app. Vendors interested in being the prime contractor had until May 22, 2020 to respond to the RFI with comments on the resolver’s ...

Some DNS resolvers cache the results they send to clients. This means that if another client requests the same IP address at a later time, the resolver can provide that IP address directly without ...

If not, the resolver forwards the request to an external DNS server and waits for a response. Once the DNS resolver has the answer, it sends the corresponding IP address to the client device.

Open and misconfigured DNS (Domain Name System) resolvers are increasingly used to amplify distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to a report released Wednesday by HostExploit, an ...

Prince hopes services such as 1.1.1.1 help spur adoption of encrypted DNS resolvers, which are currently being debated as a standard by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Typically, the DNS resolvers built into client operating systems ask nameservers (usually the ones provided by ISPs) to perform recursive queries on their behalf.

Cloudflare has introduced a new DNS resolver, which is both named and situated at 1.1.1.1, that may go further than any other towards keeping users’ web browsing data private.