POLL: DNS, what is it?

[Lifer]

 

[DaveSimmons]

Ayyy Veeee Eye

 

[Jmmsbnd007]

A-V-I

 

[dighn]

jye row

 

[guyver01]

It's both actually

Short for Domain Name System (or Service), 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.

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.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Ayyy Veeee Eye

lol

 

[Fudssa]

www.dictionary.com will tell you the truth.

 

[Lifer]

enuf AVI references.

 

[Tom]

did not start

 

[Skawttey]

Originally posted by: Dead Parrot Sketch
did not start

werd. thats what i was thinking.