What is a Domain Name System (DNS)

Created by Sahil Prabhakar, Modified on Mon, 5 Jun, 2023 at 7:26 AM by Sahil Prabhakar

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a distributed database, arranged hierarchically, containing records for Domain Names. The DNS system aims to match a Domain Name to an IP Address. In order to fulfil this role, the DNS Server contains Resource Records (Records) in a zone file, which contains the Domain Name and IP Address mappings for computers contained within that zone. All resource records have a Time To Live TTL (TTL), specifying the number of seconds other DNS servers and applications are allowed to cache the Record.

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