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In linux, in networking, when it comes time for a machine to send packets to another machine over the internet, instead of directly calling out the raw destination IP (which is not human-friendly/readable), there are hundreds of remote [...] [...]s , that do the fully qualified host name to IP translation of the destination machine.
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Name Servers

^^ also accpet: Domain Name Servers, all though in DNS records NS is the shorthand for Name Server


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In linux, in networking, when it comes time for a machine to send packets to another machine over the internet, instead of directly calling out the raw destination IP (which is not human-friendly/readable), there are hundreds of remote [...] [...]s , that do the fully qualified host name to IP translation of the destination machine.
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In linux, in networking, when it comes time for a machine to send packets to another machine over the internet, instead of directly calling out the raw destination IP (which is not human-friendly/readable), there are hundreds of remote [...] [...]s , that do the fully qualified host name to IP translation of the destination machine.
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Name Servers

^^ also accpet: Domain Name Servers, all though in DNS records NS is the shorthand for Name Server

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27. DNS and Name Resolution
.] 27.2.1 The Internet DNS infrastructure The DNS structure on the Internet actually works like this. There are computers that service requests for IP numbers--millions of them. They are called <span>name servers (or DNS servers), and a request is called a DNS lookup (or just a lookup). However, each name server only has information about a specific part of the Internet, and they constantly quer

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