HTG Explains: What is DNS?

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Published on Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:00:05 GMT Indexed on 2012/08/28 15:42 UTC
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Did you know you could be connected to facebook.com – and see facebook.com in your web browser’s address bar – while not actually being connected to Facebook’s real website? To understand why, you’ll need to know a bit about DNS.

DNS underpins the world wide web we use every day. It works transparently in the background, converting human-readable website names into computer-readable numerical IP addresses.

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