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DNS

(Domain Name Server or System) a computer set to translate IP addresses into domain names. Web addresses are read by the DNS numerically. For ex-ample, http://www.GrandCentralDiscounts.com might have the IP address, 164.205.775.07 but that would be hard for a user to remember, so GrandCentralDiscounts.com, an alphabetic name, is used. The DNS translates the name into its numeric equivalent.
A database system that translates an IP address into a domain name. For example, a numeric IP address like 207.219.116.4 is converted into netlingo.com. The DNS is a static, hierarchical name service and it uses TCP/IP hosts, and is housed on a number of servers on the Internet. Basically, it maintains this database for figuring out and finding (or resolving) host names and IP addresses. This allows users to specify remote computers by host names rather than numerical IP addresses.