There is no simple to explain answer to this question. DNS server houses the IP addresses used to access internet resources. The internet operates via IP address in the format of 255.255.255.255 (i.e. 192.168.002.015). Since those are hard to remember, DNS servers are responsible for translating the user friendly names like www.intrahost.co.uk to 213.249.135.69. I think there are something like 7 hub DNS servers on the internet that replicate to all the rest (happens constantly). By the way, if you type "CMD" in the Run box on Windows XP, then in the box which appears type "PING www.intrahost.co.uk ". You can see what the IP address is for the website. 213.249.135.69 DNS stands for Distributed Name System. A DNS server resolves a name to an IP address, as stated in earlier, but it can also point to multiple IP addresses for load balancing, or for backup servers if one or more is offline or not accepting connections. Individual organizations may have their own DNS servers for their local Intranet. Some sites have their own DNS server to switch between subdomains within them. For example, a site such as Blogspot can have subdomains come and go quite frequently. Rather than force every DNS server to update their own databases whenever someone creates a new blog, Blogspot could maintain their own DNS server to resolve names within the blogspot.com domain, e.g., to distinguish between myblog.blogspot.com and yourblog.blogspot.com ... their DNS server would be queried once blogspot.com is resolved, and it would be responsible for resolving myblog vs. yourblog. If you don't understand this answer. You could always go for the laymans terns version by asking www.askhorsey.com and see what he says
DNS Servers
DNS servers
A Domain Name server or DNS server breaks down the computers name down into the exact numeric computer location. This is very hand when a company has many computers that must to through a single access point.
DNS Server
What is the difference between a preferred DNS server and an altenate DNS server?Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/What_is_the_difference_between_a_preferred_DNS_server_and_an_altenate_DNS_server#ixzz2LRd3ICed
authoritative dns server is server that has own databases that has name resolution for the clients that for resolve from name to ip address and for ip address to name. non-authorititative dns server is server that forward request of dns client to authoritative dns server for resolve.
Unbound - DNS Server - was created in 2007.
Without the DNS server you would have to know the IP address of every computer you are communicating with. DNS exists to resolve the names of computers to IP addresses. It also aids in locating services on a network.
yes a windows domain enviorment not connected to the internet still need a dns root server because to access the resources(i.e computers, printers) we need IP and FQDN The role of DNS server is to provide that info and convert IP to FQDN and vice versa.
The primary DNS server is usually the same as the router's IP adress.
If a DNS server cannot find the answer to the DNS Query in its own database it will first query the forwarders (if there are any configured) and then ask the root server. root servers (by default) are the master DNS servers of the Internet.
The prefered DNS server for the site is the server which sends the dns zone updates to all the other servers in the site. The primary DNS zone is created on the server and it has the authority to send changes in zone to other servers