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Title: Slow Internet? Edit your DNS settings
Post by: HCK on October 11, 2014, 03:00:20 am
Slow Internet? Edit your DNS settings

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Do you ever wonder how you can click a link on a webpage and quickly zip to another page on a server halfway around the world? Or send an email message to aunt Alice or uncle Bob, using just their simple email addresses? All this depends on DNS, or the Domain Name System. This is what lets your computer find macworld.com, keeping track of the fact that this domain name corresponds to an IP address of 70.42.185.230, and that numerical address is hosting Macworld’s webpages. When you click on a link, your browser sends a request to a Web server to load a page, but that request passes through a DNS server, which stores this information in huge databases containing every single domain recorded listed together with its numerical address.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2824564/slow-internet-edit-your-dns-settings.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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