28.02.2003 12:12 UhrLee LarsonLeeLarson at mac.com: > 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>.
Thanks, Lee. My abbreviation list keeps getting larger. I wish I had gotten into all of this a little sooner. It's mindboggling. And to me it is still all magic! - Sorry i was unable to come to the meeting. I needed to ask you about a number of things. But ,behold, my car had to be in the hospital again for a new pump and mirror, they had ordered the wrong things. so I did not get the vehicle until after seven. And next month I will be in Europe at meeting time, unless Ashcroft won't let us travel anymore !!!! All in the possibility mode! Marta | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
