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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
Critical component of the Internet; maps names to IP addresses; mail exchanger; global directory service
Clients use resolver to access DNS servers
BIND - Berkeley Internet Name Domain - most common DNS
DNS servers query each other to resolve names
Client
Local
DNS
Company
DNS
COM
DNS
Root
DNS
www.company.com

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