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domain name server

domain name server

A Dictionary of Computing | 2004 | | Copyright

domain name server (DNS) A system that provides mappings between the human-oriented names of users or services in a network, and the machine-oriented network addresses of the named entity. The term is used primarily within the Internet, although other networks have similar facilities. The mapping is usually hierarchical, with the hierarchy reflected in the human-oriented names. In general terms the boundaries of a domain will coincide with some form of natural boundary within the network environment, such as a country, a community of users within a country, or the users on a site. See also FQDN.
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domain name server

A Dictionary of the Internet | 2001 | | Copyright

domain name server A SERVER which contains IP ADDRESS data about DOMAINS on the Internet and their locations. Such a server implements a DOMAIN NAME SERVICE. There are a large number of these servers spread about the Internet; they cooperate together in order to discover the IP address of a particular domain. Each domain has at least one domain name server which is able to discover addresses within that domain. However, if an address falls outside the domain the server queries other domain name servers. To do this it keeps a database of server addresses.
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