domain name system

Because maintaining a central list of domain name/IP address correspondences would be impractical, the lists of domain names and IP addresses are distributed throughout the Internet in a hierarchy of authority. There is probably a DNS server within close geographic proximity to your access provider that maps the domain names in your Internet requests or forwards them to other servers in the Internet.

Getting started with domain name system

To explore how DNS is used in the enterprise, here are some additional resources:

Tutorial: A primer on DNS and MX records: Learn what MX records are and how they work, and find out how to create an MX record and host that record on your own DNS server.

Exchange Server and DNS: This collection of tips, tutorials and tools explains how DNS works and shows how to configure it for optimal Exchange Server availability and performance.

Read more about domain name system: - SearchWin2000.com provides links to more information about the domain name system. - Cisco, the networking product manufacturer, provides an overview of DNS as part of its pages on Configuring the DNS Service .

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