DNS Server

If you have never heard of it before, a dns server is a domain name server. A domain name server is the server that stores all of the information on the internet that pertains to a certain web site or group of web sites. Although you can’t see it as you surf the internet, the different web sites out there are actually IP addresses. IP addresses are a long string of numbers that are very much like a phone number for a certain web site. Rather than having to remember that whole string of numbers, dns servers translate more memorable forms of a website name, like internet URLS, and translate them to the correct website.

What is the purpose of a dns server? The argument against DNS servers might be that people can remember IP addresses, or save them just as they would save a regular internet URL. While that may be true not all internet IP addresses are static, meaning that they do not all have the same IP address every single day. This means that while you punch in a certain number on any given day and call it an IP address to your site, the next day another site could be using that IP address. T

he domain name server translates and keeps track of all this information, and if it does not have the information that you are seeking, you are presented with the ever famous dns error page. Comcast DNS servers, Ameritech and Bellsouth DNS servers all work the same; they all retrieve information in very much the same way, even free dns servers. Public DNS servers store so much information that the human brain could not possibly begin to store all of this information and translate it; this is the purpose of computers these days, to do things that the human brain cannot and the dns server is just one of the many ways in which technology has truly been revolutionized and it has.

Have you ever gotten the error message ‘dns server error’ or ‘error not found’? If so, that is probably the only familiarity that you have with the term ‘dns server’ and that is okay. If the idea of dns servers and the intricate details of the computer world then you should consider going into computer science as a career, or perhaps taking some more classes for information. If not, then dns servers are not something that is necessary for the average person to be familiar with to get along in life.