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Foil 21 DNS - Domain Name Service

From NPAC Computer and Network Capabilities Tango Group Internal Technology Seminars -- Spring 99. by Roman Markowski
1 Critical component of the Internet; maps names to IP addresses; mail exchanger; global directory service
2 Clients use resolver to access DNS servers
3 BIND - Berkeley Internet Name Domain - most common DNS
4 DNS servers query each other to resolve names
5 Client
6 Local
7 DNS
8 Company
9 DNS
10 COM
11 DNS
12 Root
13 DNS
14 www.company.com
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