2007-07-28 09:21:05 · 4 answers · asked by ctm794 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
It sounds like you're looking for your 2 DNS addresses. If you Windows 2000/XP, this can be found by clicking the 'start' button on the bottom left side of the screen. Next, click 'run' and type 'cmd' and press Enter. Now on the black screen, type in 'ipconfig/all'. This will tell you the DNS addresses (it may say 'DNS servers').
2007-07-28 16:34:59 · answer #1 · answered by GJneedsanswers 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
every website you visit is just a bunch of files and databases located on another computer connected to the internet. the computers dedicated for that task are called servers.
servers as any other machine connected to the internet has a unique identifier, an IP.
when you want to check your email at yahoo.com you wouldn't like to type in the web browser 66.94.234.13:80 which is the IP address of the server that the yahoo company is using and the port 80 for HTTP protocol. you would like to use a slick easy-to-remember name like yahoo.com
a DNS server is a computer that holds tables of domain names (like yahoo.com) and their IP addresses (like 66.94.234.13).
you don't have a DNS on your computer, it is a part of the internet protocols and your ISP is maintaining it.
2007-07-28 09:32:48 · answer #2 · answered by Amr Hassan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a distributed internet directory service. DNS is used mostly to translate between domain names and IP addresses, and to control email delivery. It is like a phone book- translating the numbers of an IP address to the letters that you recognize in a web address , such as www.yahoo.com.
2007-07-28 09:32:15 · answer #3 · answered by dottye7777 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_system
2007-07-28 09:25:43 · answer #4 · answered by Shemp 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋