Figuring out what's wrong with DNS will go faster if you have a set of troubleshooting steps to follow. Brien Posey shares his approach to isolating the cause of DNS problems. DNS is one of the most ...

Domain Name System or DNS errors can prevent you from being able to navigate the Web or access specific applications. There may be several reasons why you get a DNS ...

Unlike Error 0x8007232B, the KMS server does exist on the network, so the only problem is resolving your network. A DNS issue means that the computer cannot reach the ...

Released with Windows 2000 and later versions, Nslookup is a command-line tool that lets you test and troubleshoot Domain Name System (DNS) resolution. To start nslookup, open a command prompt and ...

When you attempt to run CMD shortcuts from non-standard locations, you may receive ‘DNS Server not authoritative for this zone’ message. It may also prevent and prevent you from executing an important ...

If an IP address comes back and the web page appears to be loading properly in your browser, your DNS servers are working fine. If no address comes back, or an unexpected web page appears despite a ...

As Brien recently discovered, a glitch in Azure can cause a virtual machine to fail when it's manually configured to use a specific DNS server. Here's how the problem went down and how he fixed it.

If you are new to DNS server knowledge, you probably didn’t know that you can change the DNS servers you use when browsing the internet. You might want to do this for a variety of reasons, including ...