DNS Working Explained
How does the Domain Name System (DNS) Work? How does the Internet actually work? That is a question that is asked by a lot of people while they are surfing the web, video calling someone over the web or streaming something live. This post explains what a DNS is and how it works based on what I understood from my reading. I hope it is helpful to others who are trying to answer this question. The Internet as we know it relies heavily on something called a DNS ( Domain Name System ): a database of network names and IP addresses. Without DNS, the Internet that we use in our day to day lives would simply not exist and all that would be left is us staring at screens that show only binary. This also means that all the tasks we depend on the internet for such as shopping, web browsing, research, communicating or downloading would not be possible because we would not be able to make sense of anything we see. This is why experts have an apt name for DNS. The