Domain Name System In Computer Networks Ppt
Introduction the internet model that follow the client server paradigm.
Domain name system in computer networks ppt. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities. Nslookup an interactive program for querying internet domain name system servers converts a hostname into an ip address and vice versa querying dns useful to identify the subnet a host or node belongs to lists contents of a domain displaying dns record available with bsd unix. Dns stores the database of all the. Domain name system dns technology allows hosts on tcp ip networks to be address by its name.
Domain name system 1. The domain name system dns is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers services or any resource connected to the internet or a private network. Domain names a domain name is the sequence of labels from a node to the root separated by dots s read left. Its structure is an inverted hierarchical tree structure.
Here 1 4 220 134 is the ip address that is mapped to its name sunc scit wlv at uk with the help of in addr apra domain. 1 4 220 134 in addr apra will return sunc scit wlv. Dns stands for domain name system is used to as the medium to translate domain names to their respective ip addresses when a client initiates a request query. The domain name system is a client server application that identifies each host on the internet with a unique friendly name.
Generic domain country domain inverse domain. In simple terms a domain name system dns is a collection of databases that translate hostnames to ip addresses. A user of a e mail program may know the e mail address of the recipient. Ddns automatically updates the dns master.
However the ip protocol needs the ip address. Each node in the tree has a domain name. It is a special domain name in addr apra that is used translate the ip address to fully qualified domain name example. Dns use the service udp for.
Dns automatically convert the names we type in our web browsers address bar to the ip addresses of web servers hosting those sites.