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A Pedestrian's Guide to the DNS

Overview The Domain Name System (DNS) serves as the major telephone directory for the Internet. It is a distributed database that contains a collection of servers used by TCP/IP applications to perform two-way mapping between hostnames and IP addresses and to provide electronic mail routing information. The Internet Protocol (IP) address is a 32-bit integer. In order for a user to send messages via the Internet, he or she must remember the IP address of the recipient. But Internet users prefer to use descriptive, easy to remember names instead of numbers. The purpose of the DNS is to translate human readable names into their counterpart IP addresses.

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Publisher	International Messaging Associates Corporation (IMA)	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	August 2003	Downloads	1
Format	White Papers
Topics	IP Technologies

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