Microsoft KB Archive Search

Notice: This website is an unofficial Microsoft Knowledge Base (hereinafter KB) archive and is intended to provide a reliable access to deleted content from Microsoft KB. All KB articles are owned by Microsoft Corporation. Read full disclaimer for more details.

  1. Home
  2. Description of Domain Name System (DNS)

Description of Domain Name System (DNS)

View products that this article applies to.

Summary

This article describes the Domain Name System (DNS) and its major components.

↑ Back to the top

More Information

DNS is the name service for Internet addresses that translates friendly domain names to numeric Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. For example, "www.microsoft.com" translates to 198.105.232.6.

DNS consists of the following components:

  • Domains: A domain is a logical group of computers in a large network. Access to each computer in a given group is controlled by the same server.
  • Distributed Database: A distributed database is an archive of information about the computers in a network.
  • Name Servers: A name server contains address information about other computers on the network. This information can be given to client computers that make a request to the name server.
  • Clients: A client requests information from the servers. In a domain name system, the client requests network addressing information from the name servers.
  • Resolver: A resolver provides clients with address information about other computers on the network.

↑ Back to the top

Keywords: kbinfo, kbnetwork, kb

↑ Back to the top

Article Info
Article ID : 174224
Revision : 2
Created on : 8/1/2019
Published on : 8/1/2019
Exists online : False
Views : 281