On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 11:06 AM, Marta Edie wrote: > DNS stands for ??? - Marta
Domain Name Server You can think of a domain name server as sort of an electronic phone book. The names of the computers, such as erdos.math.louisville.edu, are just aliases for their real Internet addresses which look like 136.165.6.89. The domain name server translates for you. Every Internet service provider has at least one domain name server. Jerry was writing about a local caching DNS. This is a way of running a domain name server on your own Mac OS X machine. The caching part comes in because it can be set up to remember common domain requests for a short time, so it doesn't have to go out and look them up. This can speed things up a lot, if your ISP's domain name server is slow. Most people won't notice the difference, unless they've got a pretty fancy home network. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
