1. Telecommunications Networking II Topic 21 The Domain Name System (DNS) Ref: Tanenbaum 622-630 Dr. Stewart D. Personick Drexel University
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4. The Domain Name System ( DNS ) Examples: [email_address] edu [email_address] net [email_address] com [email_address] mil [email_address] org [email_address] us [email_address] gov
5. The Domain Name System ( DNS ) Domain names are case-insensitive SDP@ECE.Drexel.edu = sdp@ece.drexel.edu but….some Web page names, e.g., WWW.Drexel.edu/… have case-sensitive fields after the “/” that follows the Top-Level domain name (e.g., .edu, .com, .org, .gov, ...)
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13. DNS Queries Drexel DNS DARPA DNS .mil DNS Root DNS .edu DNS 1 2 3 IP address of: [email_address]
14. DNS Resource Records Domain_name Time_to_live Class Type Value See Tanenbuam p 625: Time_to_live = integer (seconds, e.g., 86400) Class= IN (Internet information) Example Type: A (IP address of a host) Value: 32-bit integer