Domain Name System Overview Archives - scmGalaxy https://www.scmgalaxy.com/tutorials/tag/domain-name-system-overview/ A Platform for Software Engineers Sat, 27 Feb 2021 09:09:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 What is DNS (Domain Name System) https://www.scmgalaxy.com/tutorials/what-is-dns-domain-name-system/ https://www.scmgalaxy.com/tutorials/what-is-dns-domain-name-system/#respond Mon, 08 Jan 2018 11:24:14 +0000 http://www.scmgalaxy.com/tutorials/?p=4529 Short for Domain Name System (or Service  or Server), an Internet service that translates domain names  into IP addresses. Because domain […]

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]]> Short for Domain Name System (or Service  or Server), an Internet service that translates domain names  into IP addresses. Because domain names are alphabetic, they’re easier to remember. The Internet however, is really based on IP addresses. Every time you use a domain name, therefore, a DNS service must translate the name into the corresponding IP address. For example, the domain name www.example.com might translate to 198.105.232.4.

The DNS system is, in fact, its own network. If one DNS server doesn’t know how to translate a particular domain name, it asks another one, and so on, until the correct IP address is returned.

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