What is Preferred DNS and Alternate DNS server?

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What is Preferred DNS and Alternate DNS server?
when i go inside property of my TCP/IP in my network neighborehood.. what is the use of these? please explain without using technical terms.. thank you

Answer 1

Pasted from my previous answer to you...
Well, I will give it a shot.
First, all communications on the internet is by a number (IP address to IP address) your computer handles this for you so you can use names without having to use numbers.

The Gateway, is simply an address / portal which goes to some other network. If you are on your local network the gateway takes you to the internet or to a different local network. (It is the path to outside your local system.) If you have a local router its local address is your gateway address.
If you don't have a router or from inside your router, your ISP has a "gateway" address to get you outside of their local system.

DNS is the Domain Name System. On the internet you like to type http://yahoo.com the DNS looks up yahoo.com and translates that to an Internet Address (IP) because on the internet or on your local network names are easier to remember than long numbers. (DNS works outside your local network in most cases.)

Think of DNS like a "phone book" it looks up a name gives your computer the "number" it needs to use to connect to that name.
There are two servers used for this, a Primary and Secondary dns server. This is simply to give you quicker lookups (and in case one is down the other works.) Without a DNS lookup you would have to use a full IP address to get to a website!
http://66.94.234.13 instead of http://yahoo.com (that is only one of yahoo's ip addresses).

Hope that Helps

Answer 2

Alternate Dns Server

Answer 3

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What is Preferred DNS and Alternate DNS server?
What is Preferred DNS and Alternate DNS server?
when i go inside property of my TCP/IP in my network neighborehood.. what is the use of these? please explain without using technical terms.. thank you

Answer 4

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1) Open a DOS window (if you use Win XP, click START, RUN, and type CMD. If Vista, click START and type CMD in the "start search" field). 2) Type IPCONFIG /ALL. This command shows the IP configuration on all your network interfaces (Ethernet card, wireless card, etc). Look up the specific card you're using. It will probably be called LOCAL AREA CONNECTION. 3) Among other things, it will show a list of IP addresses under the heading of "DNS servers". The first one on the list will be the preferred DNS and the others will be the secondary servers

Answer 5

DNS network is used to translate the userfriendly name on
i.e. the addresses of websites to their ip addresses.
They mainly work outside our local are network
They stand for Domain name system.
Actually two DNS systems are used to ensure that if one of your DNS server is down then you can connect to internet using the other DNS server.

Answer 6

DNS servers convert human friendly names ( e.g. www.example.com ) to IP addresses that let machines be found on the network ( 208.77.188.166 ).

The preferred DNS server is the one your computer asks first. The alternate is a backup.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

They just the way your computer finds information via your internet service provider. almost all isp's are set to find these automatically, if not just call your isp to get them if u need them