Basic HTML version of Foils prepared July 6 99

Foil 6 DNS - Domain Name Service (1)

From Directory Services for the Internet CPS714 Computational Science Information Track -- June 7 99. by Roman Markowski


1 Internet and TCP/IP service that maps network addresses , for example, 128.230.117.25, to an easy to remember names, such as merkury.npac.syr.edu
2 TCP/IP tools (like telnet, ftp, smtp) access DNS to locate names and resolve them into IP addresses
3 Names and numeric addresses are stored in many locations in a hierarchical structure. Each site has a domain name server that maintains information about the local hosts
4 Unix: /etc/hosts
5 Windows NT: \WinNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
6 127.0.0.1 localhost
7 128.230.117.25 merkury.npac.syr.edu merkury

in Table To:


© Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

If you have any comments about this server, send e-mail to webmaster@npac.syr.edu.

Page produced by wwwfoil on Tue Jul 6 1999