Adam Hardy is a former assistant editor at Forbes Advisor, where he covered small business and tech. Previously, he was a staff writer at The Penny Hoarder, specializing in the gig economy and ...

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Ever heard about the term “DNS” when using the Internet? DNS stands for Domain Name System. Before we go ahead and talk about what DNS is and how DNS lookup works, let us understand what the D in the ...

shows me that of the three nameservers listed, one of them one of them is "bad". It is either a nameserver we no longer have, or perhaps we never had. What I don't understand is what to do about it.

Domain Name System (DNS) servers translate human readable host or domain names to numeric IP addresses. Drexel IT Networking manages domain name servers used by the university. At start-up time, most ...