Networkingexplain

introduce you to the domain name system so imagine this you're on your laptop in your web browser trying to reach example dotnet both your computer and the web server for example net are connected to the Internet now usually your browser will automatically contact the web server for you and request the home page although you know the domain name you have to remember that the internet runs on IP addresses so you cannot just ask hey can you contact example net for me because the internet can't it only knows IP addresses this is where DNS comes in think of it as a gigantic address book that tells you at which IP address any domain name can be contacted to look up an address you ask a special DNS server something like Whois example dotnet and it'll tell you the answer problem solved right not so fast remember that you're not the only one on the Internet there are billions of Internet connected devices that are also trying to look up IP addresses while you're doing the s...