On 10 Jun 2000, at 8:59, Edenyard wrote:
> The questions I'd like answered are these: if you can put any DNS
> number in the box, why does an ISP supply a specific one? Am I right in
> thinking that the DNS points the browser to a sort of look-up table that
> translates www.something.com into a nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn, which actually
> refers to a computer on the network? If so, is there a list of all the
> translators worldwide that can be used to do this?
You are supposed to use the one closest to you, to reduce
network traffic and it is faster. You probably could use
203.134.64.66 (my DNS) but the lookup will take a little longer than
with you local ISP's - going half way around the world and back
again can take time.
> If that's the case,
> why don't ISPs simply issue that list to allow you to pick one? Is the
> DNS that an ISP issues proprietary to that ISP? What's the point of
> dynamically changing the DNS?
They don't change their servers as much as a "dynamic DNS"
sounds like. Its really so they don't have to tell windows users the
address; it gets it automatically. All you need to know is the
modem number, username and password. Windows can
apparently even get things like proxy server info as well, etc.
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