Technical Library

Domain Name System

Introduction

Integration

An important feature of DNS is that it makes host information available over the entire Internet. Keeping information about hosts in a file on a single computer only helps users on that one computer. However, the Domain Name System provides a means of retrieving that information from anywhere on the network.

History: Why was the domain name system created?

Background: What is the domain name system?

Pieces: What makes up the domain name system?

Zone Data: What types of resource records are there?