Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
The Need for DNS
Computers and humans conceptualize in drastically different ways. In terms of understanding locations, humans are much better at grasping the concept of names rather than numbers. For example, most people think of cities by their names, not by their ZIP codes. Computers, however, work in binary, and subsequently prefer to work with numbers. For example, computers at the post office translate the city and address names into specific ZIP codes for that region, helping each letter reach its destination.
Name resolution for computer systems works in a similar way. A user-friendly name is translated into a computer-identifiable number. TCP/IP uses a number scheme that uniquely identifies each computer interface on a network by a ...
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