Domain Name System
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Domain Name System
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The distributed database, sometimes including all the supporting hardware or software infrastructure, the Internet uses to translate hostnames into IP addresses and provide other domain-related information.
BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2), Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., https://web.archive.org/web/20060619063455/http://www.bind9.net/manual/bind/9.3.2/Bv9ARM.ch01.html
The purpose of this document is to explain the installation and upkeep of the BIND software package, and we begin by re
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| 中文 | 域名系統 /域名系统 yùmíng xìtǒng, 網域名稱系統 /网域名称系统 wǎngyù míngchēng xìtǒng |
|---|---|
| Français | système de noms de domaine, système d'adressage par domaines, adressage par domaines, annuaire des domaines |
| Deutsch | Domain-Namen-System, Domain Name System |
| Ελληνικά | Σύστημα Ονοματοδοσίας Διαδικτύου Sýstima Onomatodosías Diadiktýou |
| العربية | نِظَامُ أَسْمَاءِ ٱلنِّطَاقَات niẓāmu ʔasmāʔi n-niṭāqāt |
Talk about this word "Domain Name System." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/domain%20name%20system. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. Domain Name System. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/domain%20name%20system "Domain Name System." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/domain%20name%20system.Cite this
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