domain name system

Because maintaining a central list of domain name/IP address correspondences would be impractical, the lists of domain names and IP addresses are distributed throughout the Internet in a hierarchy of authority. There is probably a DNS server within close geographic proximity to your access provider that maps the domain names in your Internet requests or forwards them to other servers in the Internet.

Read more about domain name system: - SearchWin2000.com provides links to more information about the domain name system. - Cisco, the networking product manufacturer, provides an overview of DNS as part of its pages on Configuring the DNS Service .

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