Juliana Kenny is a freelance writer with 13 years of experience covering the technology industry. She has written for technology giants, including Oracle, Hitachi Vantara, and Comcast, and she ...

The Internet has roots reaching back to the late 1950s, but the World Wide Web wasn't made publicly accessible until 1993. We now rely on the global network for everything from basic communication to ...

What does the "Primary DNS suffix of this computer" setting in the "Computer Name" setting for XP do, and what are the pros and cons of setting it manually vs leaving it blank?<BR><BR>I'm currently ...

DNS doesn't do anything different. There's no distinction in IP protocols between 'local' and 'wide' area networks.<BR><BR>Windows machines don't usually need DNS (or WINS, which does something ...