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Acronym: IP
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Internet Protocol
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et]]. The most important function of these DNS servers is the translation (resolution) of humanly memorable domain names and hostnames into the corresponding numeric Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, the second principal Internet name space, used to identify and locate computer systems and resources on the Internet. ==Domain Name System== The Internet maintains two principal [[na |
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Acronym: ICANN
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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
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top hierarchy of the Internet Domain Name System is served by the root name servers maintained by delegation by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). ===Authoritative name server=== An ''authoritative'' name server is a name server that gives #Authoritative answer|answers that have been configured by an original source, for example the do |
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Acronym: LDAP
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Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
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ks)|broadcast]] algorithm. ==See also== * Comparison of DNS server software * Directory service * DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) * Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) * Network Information Service (NIS) * Name Service Switch (NSS) * Resolver (DNS)|resolver, resolv.conf, resolvconf for Unix/Linux * BIND * OpenDNS * [[Google |
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Acronym: NSS
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Name Service Switch
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oftware]] * Directory service * DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) * Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) * Network Information Service (NIS) * Name Service Switch (NSS) * Resolver (DNS)|resolver, resolv.conf, resolvconf for Unix/Linux * BIND * OpenDNS * Google_Public_DNS| Google Public DNS ==References== ==External links== |
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