Re: Who Really Controls Internet?
Those are just TLD name servers, nothing more. The Internet would still work if those were to just disappear but it would be less useful or easy to use than it is now.
Every server gets an IP address. That's what you really use to connect. DNS is just there to translate human readable to machine readable.
For example:
Doing a lookup for Ebay brings up:
I:\dm\bin>nslookup
In other words, hit ebay and your request directs to one of the addresses listed.
Yes its clunky. But in the early days we used it. Many servers had and still have hosts files where you could put a readable name and it's ip address and all requests first went to hosts, then out to any available DNS servers.
For example -- at my current place of employment we host several database servers which then connect across a point to point connection to a cluster at a different location. We use host entires on our machines to get at the servers on the cluster.
read more and respond »Posted 5 years ago by Tony P. in General Telecommunications Forum
