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What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel

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Router vs. Computer DNS Settings: Here's What Was Faster

If your internet is slow and you feel like you've tried everything, you're in luck: I've got one more fix you might not have tried. Changing your DNS settings on either your Wi-Fi router or your ...
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The hidden router setting that is quietly slowing down your internet

By switching to, for example, Google's public DNS servers you could experience less waiting for pages to start loading, and ...
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What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel

Amazon Web Services, hosted in data centers like this one in Virginia, supports thousands of websites, apps and online services – but not during its recent DNS outage. Nathan Howard/Getty Images When ...
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What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Doug Jacobson, Iowa State University (THE CONVERSATION) When millions of people ...