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DNS and BIND

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DNS and BIND, 9781565925120 (1565925122), O'Reilly, 1998
You may not know much about the Domain Name System − yet − but whenever you use the Internet, you
use DNS. Every time you send electronic mail or surf the World Wide Web, you rely on the Domain Name
System.

You see, while you, as a human being, prefer to remember the names of computers, computers like to address
each other by number. On an internet, that number is 32 bits long, or between zero and four billion or so.[1]
That's easy for a computer to remember, because computers have lots of memory ideal for storing numbers,
but it isn't nearly as easy for us humans. Pick ten phone numbers out of the phone book at random, and then
try to remember them. Not easy? Now flip to the front of the book and attach random area codes to the phone
numbers. That's about how difficult it would be to remember ten arbitrary internet addresses.

This is part of the reason we need the Domain Name System. DNS handles mapping between host names,
which we humans find convenient, and internet addresses, which computers deal with. In fact, DNS is the
standard mechanism on the Internet for advertising and accessing all kinds of information about hosts, not
just addresses. And DNS is used by virtually all internetworking software, including electronic mail, remote
terminal programs such as telnet, file transfer programs such as ftp, and web browsers such as Netscape
Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Another important feature of DNS is that it makes host information available all over the Internet. Keeping
information about hosts in a formatted file on a single computer only helps users on that computer.
DNS provides a means of retrieving information remotely, from anywhere on the network.
More than that, DNS lets you distribute the management of host information among many sites and
organizations. You don't need to submit your data to some central site or periodically retrieve copies of the
"master" database. You simply make sure your section, called a zone, is up to date on your name servers.
Your name servers make your zone's data available to all the other name servers on the network.
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