January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
11h 50m
English
As you already know from your daily experience in HTTP, we don't use IP addresses directly, but rather Unified Resource Locations (URLs) such as www.google.com/index.html. The first thing we have to do before we can even access HTTP is to translate the first part of this character string into a corresponding network address. We do this by using the Domain Name Service (DNS) protocol, which can query a hierarchical collection of servers on the internet holding address data for given domain names. DNS uses the (unreliable) UDP protocol for its transport layer.
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