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How DNS Works

Domain Name Servers (DNS) translate website names to IP addresses and vice versa, forming one of the largest databases on the internet. DNS is a hierarchical, tree-structured system with top-level domains like .com, .org, and .gov. When a user enters a website address, their device first contacts a DNS server to obtain the IP address for that domain name. The DNS server may then contact other DNS servers until the correct IP address is found and returned to the user's device.

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How DNS Works

Domain Name Servers (DNS) translate website names to IP addresses and vice versa, forming one of the largest databases on the internet. DNS is a hierarchical, tree-structured system with top-level domains like .com, .org, and .gov. When a user enters a website address, their device first contacts a DNS server to obtain the IP address for that domain name. The DNS server may then contact other DNS servers until the correct IP address is found and returned to the user's device.

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Domain name Servers (DNS) are an important but invisible part


of the Internet, and form one of the largest databases on it. Each
machine on an Internet is assigned a unique address, called an IP
address, which is 32 bit number and is expressed as 4 octets.The
method user to represent these IP addresses is known as dotted
decimal Notation". A typical address looks like this:
199.249.150.4

It is very difficult to keep in mind the IP addresses of all the


websites we visit daily, because it's not easy to remember strings
of numbers. However, we do remember words. This is where
domain names come into the picture. If you want to connect to a
particular site, you need to know its IP address but do need to
know its URL. The DNS gets the mappings of the IP addresses
and the corresponding names.

Names and numbers

DNS converts the machine names (such as www.xyz.com) to IP


addresses (such as 199.249.150.9). Basically, it translates from a
name to an address and from an address to a name.

The mapping from the IP address to the machine name is called


reverse mapping .when you typehttp://www.xyz.com into your
browser, the browser first needs to get the IP address
of www.xyz.com. The machine uses a directory service to look up
IP addresses and this service is called DNS. When you
type www.xyz.com your machines firsts contacts a DNS server,
asking it to find the IP address for www.xyz.com. This DNS server
might then contact other DNS servers on the Internet. DNS is
therefore is considered as the global network of servers. The
great advantage of DNS is that no organization is responsible for
updating it. It is what is known as distributed database.

The three letter codes

A DNS server is just a computer that's running the DNS software.


The most popular DNS software is BIND (Berkeley Internet Name
Domain) DNS is hierarchical, tree-structured system. The top is
donated by'.'. And is known as the root of the system. Below the
root there are seven immediate sub domain nodes and these are
'com', 'org', 'gov', 'mil', 'net', 'edu', 'Int', etc.

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