- (computing)
(Internet)
The distributed database, sometimes including all the
supporting hardware or software infrastructure, the Internet
uses to translate hostnames into IP numbers and provide
other domain related information.
- BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2),
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., "http://www.bind9.net/manual/bind/9.3.2/Bv9ARM.ch01.html
- The purpose of this document is to explain the
installation and upkeep of the BIND software package,
and we begin by reviewing the fundamentals of
the Domain Name System (DNS) as they relate to
BIND. ... The Domain Name System (DNS) is the
hierarchical, distributed database. It stores
information for mapping Internet host names to
IP addresses and vice versa, mail routing information,
and other data used by Internet applications.
More on domain name systems
See
also
This article is licensed under the GNU
Free Documentation License. It uses material from the
Wikipedia
article "Domain_Name_System".
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