[BNomic-Public] Re: [Bnomic-private] The Daily Recognizer (Wednesday evening)

[bd bdonlan@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Friday 06 September 2002 04:39 pm, Daniel Lepage wrote:

> I don't remember what the acronym stands for - something Network Server=
 or
> something like that. But as I understand it, when you ask for, say,
> cornell.edu, the DNS is the thingy that knows what to connect you to, t=
hat
> is, knows where the actual cornell.edu sever is. If it doesn't know whe=
re
> your server is, it looks around, querying other servers, etc. This is w=
hat
> happens during that long pause between when you hit enter and when expl=
orer
> tells you that it can't find nomic.net. If neither the DNS nor any of i=
ts
> buddies can find the server, it tells you that it can't be found.
>
> Or at least, that's how I understand it. I'm not an expert in this fiel=
d,
> so anybody that actually knows what I'm talking about, please correct m=
e if
> I've said something really stupid.

DNS =3D Domain Name Service.

Read http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=3D37240

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bd
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