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Domain Name System: by - Menaka Sarkar B
Domain Name System: by - Menaka Sarkar B
By
-Menaka Sarkar B.
Contents
├ DNS
├ Components
Resolvers
Name servers
DNS database (resource record)
├ DNS Scavenging.
Host file names
• Each ip address was manually mapped to
its domain name.
not
• disadvantages
manageable in bigger
networks, not optimized,
had to be downloaded,
integrity constraints, not
up-to-date.
Introduction to DNS
• A distributed database
• Domains as indexes.
• Replication
• Caching
• Delegation
Components of DNS
• Resolver
• Name server
• Database of resource records(RRs)
resolver client
Standard Name Resolution: