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Meanings of dns in English

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A network system of servers that translates numeric IP addresses into readable, hierarchical Internet addresses, and vice versa.

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Examples for "domain name system"
Examples for "domain name system"
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Others have chronicled the political problems that the domain name system's top-down structure has created.
Wired
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What's worse, the domain name system is fundamentally insecure.
Wired
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China still relies upon the likes of the global domain name system to manage web traffic.
Wired
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Besides strengthening the domain name system, DNSSEC can function as a database for distributing public keys.
Wired
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ANYONE who has used the Internet has used the domain name system (DNS), however unwittingly.
The Irish Times
Usage of dns in English
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The biggest problem is that DNS is not completely under your control:
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Each label represents a different level, or domain, of the DNS hierarchy.
Apple training series: mac os x support essentials v10.6
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DNS-Cl is a specific primary amine reagent widely used in protein biochemistry.
Pubmed
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This untrusted DNS infrastructure cannot be what drives the internet going forward.
Wired
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As you know, DNS names are broken into labels separated by periods.
Apple training series: mac os x support essentials v10.6
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Document your network standards for configuration, software version, supported hardware, and DNS.
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The DNS server will search its local and cached name records first.
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If DNS was trusted, none of this would have been an issue.
Wired
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After various IP and DNS settings we managed to get things setup.
Wired
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DNS providers such as Dyn act as a switchboard for internet traffic.
Reuters
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DNS is screwy, too-like maybe someone poisoned the zone transfer last night.
Wastelands
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And it will do so faster and better than Comcast's DNS could.
Wired
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Both systems use DNS to publish extra information about the e-mail sender's domain.
Wired
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Fortunately, most of us don't need to know even this much about DNS.
The Irish Times
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A bit of knowledge of how the DNS naming structure works is essential.
The South African
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DNS is responsible for delivering web surfers to the correct sites they're seeking.
Wired
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