Many DNS servers are wrongly configured or running out-of-date software, leaving them vulnerable to malicious attacks, according to a survey published on Monday. The Measurement Factory, an Internet ...

The common way a DNS server is configured to handle requests. The DNS server makes multiple requests to the various DNS servers on the Internet in order to wind up with the actual IP address of the ...

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New findings by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Google on a malicious DNS-related attack have stirred some debate over whether open recursive DNS servers are inherently insecure ...

A group of experts has released an open-source alternative to the BIND DNS server software that boasts higher performance and better security than BIND. The new DNS server — dubbed Unbound 1.0 — is ...

Some domain name server (DNS) implementations are at risk for denial-of-service attacks after a vulnerability was disclosed and patched in a few popular server packages, including BIND, PowerDNS and ...

In a twist on distributed denial-of-service attacks, cybercriminals are using DNS servers--the phonebooks of the Internet--to amplify their assaults and disrupt online business. Earlier this year, ...

I'm confused. I was working on a clients Server 2008 DNS today and removed the dns forwarders so dns would use the root hints instead, and recursion (to external, web dns queries) stopped working ...

More than 10 percent of the Internet’s DNS (Domain Name System) servers are still vulnerable to cache-poisoning attacks, according to a worldwide survey of public-facing Internet nameservers. That’s ...

More than 10 percent of the Internet’s DNS servers are still vulnerable to cache-poisoning attacks, according to a worldwide survey of public-facing Internet nameservers. That’s despite it being ...