Domain Name System

English Proper noun Domain Name System en computing Internet 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 reviewing the fundamentals of the Domain Name System (DNS) as they relate to BIND. ... The Domain Name System (DNS) is the hierarchical, distributed database. It stores information for mapping Internet host names to IP addresses and vice versa, mail routing information, and other data used by Internet applications. Synonyms en DNS Translations hostname translation database Arabic: ar نِظَامُ أَسْمَاءِ ٱلنِّطَاقَات m Chinese: Cantonese: yue 域名系統 Mandarin: cmn 域名系統 yùmíng xìtǒng, cmn 網域名稱系統 wǎngyù míngchēng xìtǒng Esperanto: eo domajna nomsistemo Finnish: fi verkkotunnusjärjestelmä French: fr système de noms de domaine m, fr système d'adressage par domaines m, fr adressage par domaines m, fr annuaire des domaines m German: de Domain-Namen-System n, de Domain Name System n Greek: el Σύστημα Ονοματοδοσίας Διαδικτύου n Polish: pl Domain Name System m Thai: th ระบบการตั้งชื่อโดเมน rá-bòp gaan dtâng chêu-doh-mayn See also en domain name en domain name server