07 June, 2010

What is DNS?


DNS stands domain name system. the human readable name assigned to the computer server on the internet is called the domain name. it is a common and unique text name and is alternative to an IP address. The domain name system (DNS) stores the information about domain names and their corresponding IP addresses. For this purpose DNS server is used, which translates the domain name into its IP address.

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  1. This is an useful information.I would like to share some points about DNS in simple words.

    DNS means Domain Name System which helps to transfer IP address to Domain name and Domain name to IP addresses.It plays vital role in internet technology.For example,if you provide domain name like Google.com it convert the domain name into particular IP address.If you provide the IP address like 74.125.239.9 the DNS search for the particular website and display on your browser.DNS consist of many resource records.Some of them are A record,CNAME record,DNAME record etc.,
    You can check DNS query using the site WhoisXY.com .

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