What is DNS?

Wed Feb 23 04:10:52 UTC 2000

It is a world-wide distributed, hierachical database that provides a service
(operating from port 53), that allows any computer on the internet to
translate a human-readable domain name (eg. www.freebsd.org) to an IP
address (eg. 123.456.789.111) so that the computer can make a connection to
that machine.

It is similar to having a service that takes a suburb name and returns the
ZIP for that suburb...

Chris

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<jpaigel at my-deja.com> wrote in message news:87clao$pad$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...
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