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Looking up IP addresses with DNS

Looking up IP addresses with DNS

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Looking up IP addresses with DNS

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- [Instructor] When we're trying to reach resources on a network, for me anyway, it's easier to remember names instead of IP addresses. Fortunately, our hosts can point to a DNS server that will take the name that we send in and translate that name into a corresponding IP address. By the way, DNS stands for Domain Name System and in this example a PC is asking the DNS server for the IP address of kwtrain.com and the DNS server responds and says here is your IP address. And in DNS names, they're organized in a hierarchical fashion. For example, we have commercial domains that fall under the root domain. The commercial domains might have a dot com. We might have military domains that end in a dot mil. We might have universities that have an .edu extension and different countries might have their own domain. For example, Amazon.com that I get to in the US, in the United Kingdom, it has domain name of Amazon.co.uk…

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