{"id":2859,"date":"2021-04-03T13:16:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T13:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/?post_type=encyclopedia&#038;p=2859"},"modified":"2021-04-03T13:16:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T13:16:22","slug":"dns","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/encyclopedia\/dns\/","title":{"rendered":"DNS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2075\" src=\"https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mother-of-God_icon1200-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mother-of-God_icon1200-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mother-of-God_icon1200-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mother-of-God_icon1200-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mother-of-God_icon1200-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mother-of-God_icon1200-850x850.png 850w, https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mother-of-God_icon1200.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">DNS refers to the Domain Name Sy<a href=\"https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/encyclopedia\/stem\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"STEM is a term that refers to the broad study area of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.\" class=\"encyclopedia\">stem<\/a> used on the internet. DNS is the sy<a href=\"https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/encyclopedia\/stem\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"STEM is a term that refers to the broad study area of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.\" class=\"encyclopedia\">stem<\/a> that matches domain names to an <a href=\"https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/encyclopedia\/ip-address\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"The term IP address refers to Internet Protocol address.&nbsp; It is a numerical address that is assigned to any device connected to the internet.\" class=\"encyclopedia\">IP address<\/a>. For a domain name to be used on the internet it has to resolve to a specific <a href=\"https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/encyclopedia\/ip-address\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"The term IP address refers to Internet Protocol address.&nbsp; It is a numerical address that is assigned to any device connected to the internet.\" class=\"encyclopedia\">IP address<\/a>. DNS is similar to a map or telephone white pages in as much as [for example] when you type a website domain name into your <a href=\"https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/encyclopedia\/web-browser\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"A web browser is the application that you use to browse the internet and visit websites like PingYour.com. When you visit a website your web browser will take the raw data that is sent by the website that you are visiting and along with cookie content convert it into text and images that are displayed&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">web browser<\/a> address bar it is DNS that &ldquo;tells&rdquo; your <a href=\"https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/encyclopedia\/web-browser\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"A web browser is the application that you use to browse the internet and visit websites like PingYour.com. When you visit a website your web browser will take the raw data that is sent by the website that you are visiting and along with cookie content convert it into text and images that are displayed&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">web browser<\/a> &ldquo;that website is being hosted at *this* <a href=\"https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/encyclopedia\/ip-address\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"The term IP address refers to Internet Protocol address.&nbsp; It is a numerical address that is assigned to any device connected to the internet.\" class=\"encyclopedia\">IP address<\/a>&rdquo; and then your <a href=\"https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/encyclopedia\/web-browser\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"A web browser is the application that you use to browse the internet and visit websites like PingYour.com. When you visit a website your web browser will take the raw data that is sent by the website that you are visiting and along with cookie content convert it into text and images that are displayed&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">web browser<\/a> sends a request to the <a href=\"https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/encyclopedia\/ip-address\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"The term IP address refers to Internet Protocol address.&nbsp; It is a numerical address that is assigned to any device connected to the internet.\" class=\"encyclopedia\">IP address<\/a> to deliver the website data.<\/p>\n<p>There are many DNS web servers on the internet. When a domain DNS settings change it can sometimes take up to 36 hours for the information to refresh on all DNS web servers throughout the internet. Some DNS web servers may refresh fairly quickly and regularly, for example the Google DNS web servers. Other DNS web servers, for example a local ISP that refreshes their DNS web servers once a day, might take longer.<\/p>\n<p>DNS settings are entered when setting up a dedicated server in order to &ldquo;tell the internet&rdquo; how to reach it. In that respect, the <a href=\"https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/encyclopedia\/ip-address\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"The term IP address refers to Internet Protocol address.&nbsp; It is a numerical address that is assigned to any device connected to the internet.\" class=\"encyclopedia\">IP address<\/a>[es] assigned to a dedicated server, <a href=\"https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/encyclopedia\/vps\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"VPS is a web hosting related term that refers to a Virtual Private Server. A virtual private server is a unique partitioning of resources of a dedicated server for each user. &nbsp; VPS can be given root access, as each VPS hosted on a single dedicated server will be running a unique copy of an&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">VPS<\/a>, or individual website is similar to the street address of a house. DNS settings are the &ldquo;central telephone book&rdquo; of the internet that says &ldquo;when you are looking for that street address it is located here&rdquo; It is because of DNS that you don&rsquo;t have to remember the <a href=\"https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/encyclopedia\/ip-address\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"The term IP address refers to Internet Protocol address.&nbsp; It is a numerical address that is assigned to any device connected to the internet.\" class=\"encyclopedia\">IP address<\/a> of each website that you would like to visit. Instead, you only have to remember the domain name, and then &ldquo;behind the scene&rdquo; DNS directs the domain name to the <a href=\"https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/encyclopedia\/ip-address\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"The term IP address refers to Internet Protocol address.&nbsp; It is a numerical address that is assigned to any device connected to the internet.\" class=\"encyclopedia\">IP address<\/a> where it is hosted for you.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pingpipe.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25\" src=\"https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/logo-inverse.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"39\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNS refers to the Domain Name System used on the internet. 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