Domain Name System (DNS) is something that we rely on quite a
lot. You even got here to read this article with the help of a
DNS who helped you find this article on the internet. Knowing
what it is and the ways it finds the pages that are shown in a
browser can be considered as something quite mysterious, but
that does not have to be the case. The
author of a lot of great open source projects, Kamran Ahmed, has recently published a short and helpful
representation on the basics of DNS.
He compared the way DNS works with our phones: We use our
phones to call someone after we have their numbers. Similarly,
we can visit a website only after we type in the browser
address bar the domain which or the IP address.
Here is the actual image that Kamran has published in a recent article. I hope you find it useful in refreshing up your knowledge or learn something that you may have not learned in the past.
