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Anycast Hosting Made Easy A Primer on the Domain Name System (DNS)
In the early days of the Internet, humans and other computers located the few massive interconnected computers the same way: by their numeric Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Soon, the impracticality of memorizing all these numbers became obvious and a rudimentary naming scheme was developed. A central repository of names and their associated IP addresses was […]
What is a DNS Server?
You want to know what a DNS server is and what DNS does? Quite simply, DNS is what makes the Internet work. Seriously! Imagine going to Facebook by typing in the IP address in your browser. Obviously that’s not going to work. It’s not very memorable, and can you see people using IP addresses […]