What is a DNS server?
Dns means domain name server. It is the smartest way to find a website .You cannot remember many website ip address at same time.So domain name is used for remembering the website.For example 74.125.239.17 is one ip address of Google.com.It is very difficult to remember always.So you can use domain name to view the particular website. the conversion of domain name to ip address is done by DNS .If you want to find domain to ip,ip to domain,dns record details you can visit this site WhoisXY.com here you can get all the information
A DNS Server is a computer that contains specialized information about a particular domain (or domains) and is connected to the global DNS system. Of the many types of information it may contain, most importantly it provides a physical location (IP address) for each domain name, and lists the mail exchange servers accepting e-mail for each domain. The DNS provides a vital service on the Internet as it allows the transmission of technical information in a user-friendly way. While computers and network hardware work with IP addresses to perform tasks such as addressing and routing, humans generally find it easier to work with hostnames and domain names in URLs and e-mail addresses. The DNS therefore mediates between the needs and preferences of humans and of software. The DNS system is, in fact, its own network. If one DNS server doesn’t know how to translate a particular domain name, it asks another one, and so on, until the correct IP address is returned.
The term DNS covers two meanings: – The “Domain Name System”: concerns the global speech recognition system of naming on the Internet and its management placed under the responsibility of Icann (www.icann.org). – The “Domain Name Server”: concerns a server connected to the Internet network and which contains the tables establishing the correspondences between domain names and physical IP addresses on the Internet network. All DNS servers of the whole world are inter-connected between them via the Internet network and permanently exchange information for the update of their tables.
[Back to FAQs index] A “DNS” is the abbreviation for Domain Name Server. The main purpose for DNS is to map host names into Internet addresses (so called IP addresses), or vice versa. An ISP could manage your DNS functions for a fee, but the advantages of managing your own DNS are saving monthly costs and assigning host names easily yourself without relying on an ISP. The GallantWEB reduces the task of managing your DNS server into a simple procedure.
