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CONVERRTING IP ADDRESSING : |
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To identify an entity, TCP/IP protocols use the IP address, which uniquely identifies the connection of a host to the Internet. However, users prefer a system that can map a name to an address or an address to a name. This section considers converting a name to an address and vice versa, mapping between high-level machine names and IP addresses.


Domain Name System (DNS) :
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The Domain Name System (DNS) uses a hierarchical naming scheme known as domain names. The mechanism that implements a machine name hierarchy for TCP/IP is called DNS.

DNS has two conceptual aspects: the first specifies the name syntax and rules for delegating authority over names, and the second specifies the implementation of a distributed computing system that efficiently maps names to addresses.
DNS is a protocol that can be used in different platforms. In the Internet, the domain name space is divided into three different sections: generic domain, country domain and inverse domain.

A DNS server maintains a list of hostnames and IP addresses, allowing computers that query them to find remote computers by specifying hostnames rather than IP addresses. DNS is a distributed database and therefore DNS servers can be configured to use a sequence of name servers, based on the domains in the name being looked for.


This is what all about the DNS. The Converting IP addressing in the internet world. How it working and its description.


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