DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM

Domain Name System (DNS)



Domain Name System (DNS)

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The domain name system is the network system that resolves an alphanumeric common domain name, such as www.moon.com, to its numerical Internet Protocol (IP) address.

The Stanford Research Institute's Network Information Centre (SRI-NIC) became the responsible authority for maintaining unique host names for the Internet. The SRI-NIC maintained a single file, called hosts.txt, and sites would continuously update SRI-NIC with their host name to IP address mappings to add to, delete from, or change in the file. The difficulty was ...