DNS Demystified: Using dig to Trace the Internet’s Phonebook
From root servers to IP addresses: a step-by-step guide to how the world finds your website.
From root servers to IP addresses: a step-by-step guide to how the world finds your website.
The web browser is, in a sense, completely clueless about where to go when you type a website address. It does not know where google.com lives. What it needs is an IP address, something like 216.58.21
