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Title: NameServers Post by: admin on January 09, 2007, 05:29:10 PM When a domain is typed into a browser's address bar, how does the computer know where that domain is on the internet?
Nameservers (DNS can be meant as domain nameservers) are used to identify where a website is on the internet. For example: 1. User wishes to go visit www.syskay.com - requests page to ISP. 2. ISP does know where syskay.com is on the internet. ISP looks at the **WHOIS** information, and finds out a domain's nameservers. 3. The nameservers are asked where the domain is. They return the **IP** to that domain. 4. ISP now has the IP of the domain - webpage is accessed. |