DNS Historical Facts

[servomapper64]

Hi All,

Im working in the one of the biggest data centers in United States
as a system administrator and always have people asking me about Internet
in a real live. Their big misunderstanding place is exactly about the hostname
resoving, they cannot understand how IP could be attached to a hostname
and thatswhy most people associate Internet with webpages, what is
definately not right. I will try to explain here in short what is DNS. This
will allow people to have more deep understanding about Interner.

Litte bit of history:
The practice of using a name as a more human-legible abstraction of a
machine's numerical address on the network predates even TCP/IP, and
goes all the way back to the ARPAnet era. Originally, each computer on the
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[pumice]

nice article, but what is the sense in copying the same from wikipedia and posting on forum

you could have just posted the url of article and said something from your side -- This message may have been cut off and the rest will only be shown to members. To become a member, click here --