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Foil 8 DNS - Domain Name Service (3)

From Directory Services for the Internet CPS714 Computational Science Information Track -- June 7 99. by Roman Markowski
Critical component of the Internet; maps names to IP addresses; mail exchanger; global directory service
Unix clients use resolver to access DNS servers
DNS servers query each other to resolve names
Client
Local
DNS
Company
DNS
COM
DNS
Root
DNS
www.company.com

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