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A Domain Name System (DNS) is a directory of computers that can be used to locate resources on the Internet. DNS is implemented as a hierarchical database of records. Each DNS record associates an IP address with a hostname or domain name.

When a client requests a resource, the DNS server looks up the IP address associated with the hostname or domain name in the database. The DNS server then sends the client the resource’s associated hostname or domain name.

DNS servers are used to resolve domain names to IP addresses. A domain name is a string of characters that identifies a site on the Internet. For example, the domain name example.com identifies the site at example.

com. A user can access a site by entering its domain name, such as www.example.com, into a web browser.

A DNS server can also be used to resolve IP addresses to domain names. For example, if a user’s computer is connected to the Internet and the user wants to access the Google website, the user can type www.google.com into a web browser.

The DNS server will look up the IP address for www.com and will return the corresponding domain name, such as google.com.