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(1) 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.

36 posted on 04/21/2012 8:15:42 PM PDT by BwanaNdege (Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)

Thank you! I did not know that.

37 posted on 04/21/2012 8:25:45 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)

Thank you! I did not know that.

39 posted on 04/21/2012 11:05:05 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)

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