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Domain Name System

Index Domain Name System

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical and distributed name service that provides a naming system for computers, services, and other resources on the Internet or other Internet Protocol (IP) networks. [1]

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  1. 173 relations: ACM Queue, Ad blocking, Address space, Alternative DNS root, American Registry for Internet Numbers, Android (operating system), Anycast, APNIC, Apple Inc., ARPANET, ASCII, Authentication, Bhavin Turakhia, BIND, Bit, Captive portal, Carl Malamud, Chaosnet, Circular dependency, Client–server model, Cloud computing, CNAME record, Communication protocol, Comparison of DNS server software, Computer, Concatenation, Content delivery network, Country code top-level domain, Data exfiltration, Data integrity, Database model, Decentralized object location and routing, DENIC, Dig (command), Digital Equipment Corporation, Digital signature, Directory service, Distributed database, DNS hijacking, DNS leak, DNS Long-Lived Queries, DNS management software, DNS over HTTPS, DNS over TLS, DNS root zone, DNS spoofing, DNS zone, DNS zone transfer, DNSCrypt, DNSCurve, ... Expand index (123 more) »

  2. Internet properties established in 1983

ACM Queue

ACM Queue (stylized acmqueue) is a bimonthly computer magazine, targeted to software engineers, published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 2003.

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Ad blocking

Ad blocking or ad filtering is a software capability for blocking or altering online advertising in a web browser, an application or a network.

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Address space

In computing, an address space defines a range of discrete addresses, each of which may correspond to a network host, peripheral device, disk sector, a memory cell or other logical or physical entity.

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Alternative DNS root

The Internet uses the Domain Name System (DNS) to associate numeric computer IP addresses with human-readable names.

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American Registry for Internet Numbers

The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is the regional Internet registry for the United States, Canada, and many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands.

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Android (operating system)

Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

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Anycast

Anycast is a network addressing and routing methodology in which a single IP address is shared by devices (generally servers) in multiple locations.

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APNIC

APNIC (the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) is the regional Internet address registry (RIR) for the Asia–Pacific region.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.

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ARPANET

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first computer networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite.

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ASCII

ASCII, an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication.

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Authentication

Authentication (from authentikos, "real, genuine", from αὐθέντης authentes, "author") is the act of proving an assertion, such as the identity of a computer system user.

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Bhavin Turakhia

Bhavin Turakhia (born 21 December 1979) is an entrepreneur, and the founder of Titan, Flock, Radix, CodeChef, and Zeta.

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BIND

BIND is a suite of software for interacting with the Domain Name System (DNS).

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Bit

The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communication.

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Captive portal

A captive portal is a web page accessed with a web browser that is displayed to newly connected users of a Wi-Fi or wired network before they are granted broader access to network resources.

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Carl Malamud

Carl Malamud (born July 2, 1959) is an American technologist, author, and public domain advocate, known for his foundation Public.Resource.Org.

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Chaosnet

Chaosnet is a local area network technology.

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Circular dependency

In software engineering, a circular dependency is a relation between two or more modules which either directly or indirectly depend on each other to function properly.

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Client–server model

The client–server model is a distributed application structure that partitions tasks or workloads between the providers of a resource or service, called servers, and service requesters, called clients. Domain Name System and client–server model are application layer protocols.

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Cloud computing

Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user.

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CNAME record

A Canonical Name (CNAME) record is a type of resource record in the Domain Name System (DNS) that maps one domain name (an alias) to another (the canonical name).

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Communication protocol

A communication protocol is a system of rules that allows two or more entities of a communications system to transmit information via any variation of a physical quantity.

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Comparison of DNS server software

This article presents a comparison of the features, platform support, and packaging of many independent implementations of Domain Name System (DNS) name server software.

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Computer

A computer is a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation).

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Concatenation

In formal language theory and computer programming, string concatenation is the operation of joining character strings end-to-end.

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Content delivery network

A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers.

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Country code top-level domain

A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory identified with a country code.

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Data exfiltration

Data exfiltration occurs when malware and/or a malicious actor carries out an unauthorized data transfer from a computer.

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Data integrity

Data integrity is the maintenance of, and the assurance of, data accuracy and consistency over its entire life-cycle.

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Database model

A database model is a type of data model that determines the logical structure of a database.

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Decentralized object location and routing

In computer science, Decentralized Object Location and Routing (DOLR) is a scalable, location-independent routing technology.

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DENIC

DENIC eG is the manager of the.de domain, the country-code top-level domain for Germany.

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Dig (command)

dig is a network administration command-line tool for querying the Domain Name System (DNS).

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Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s.

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Digital signature

A digital signature is a mathematical scheme for verifying the authenticity of digital messages or documents.

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Directory service

In computing, a directory service or name service maps the names of network resources to their respective network addresses.

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Distributed database

A distributed database is a database in which data is stored across different physical locations.

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DNS hijacking

DNS hijacking, DNS poisoning, or DNS redirection is the practice of subverting the resolution of Domain Name System (DNS) queries.

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DNS leak

A DNS leak is a security flaw that allows DNS requests to be revealed to ISP DNS servers, despite the use of a VPN service to attempt to conceal them.

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DNS Long-Lived Queries

DNS Long-Lived Queries is a mechanism that allows DNS clients to learn about changes to DNS data without polling.

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DNS management software

DNS management software is computer software that controls Domain Name System (DNS) server clusters.

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DNS over HTTPS

DNS over HTTPS (DoH) is a protocol for performing remote Domain Name System (DNS) resolution via the HTTPS protocol. Domain Name System and DNS over HTTPS are application layer protocols.

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DNS over TLS

DNS over TLS (DoT) is a network security protocol for encrypting and wrapping Domain Name System (DNS) queries and answers via the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. Domain Name System and DNS over TLS are application layer protocols.

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DNS root zone

The DNS root zone is the top-level DNS zone in the hierarchical namespace of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet.

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DNS spoofing

DNS spoofing, also referred to as DNS cache poisoning, is a form of computer security hacking in which corrupt Domain Name System data is introduced into the DNS resolver's cache, causing the name server to return an incorrect result record, e.g. an IP address.

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DNS zone

A DNS zone is a specific portion of the DNS namespace in the Domain Name System (DNS), which a specific organization or administrator manages.

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DNS zone transfer

DNS zone transfer, also sometimes known by the inducing DNS query type AXFR, is a type of DNS transaction.

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DNSCrypt

DNSCrypt is a network protocol that authenticates and encrypts Domain Name System (DNS) traffic between the user's computer and recursive name servers.

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DNSCurve

DNSCurve is a proposed secure protocol for the Domain Name System (DNS), designed by Daniel J. Bernstein.

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Domain hijacking

Domain hijacking or domain theft is the act of changing the registration of a domain name without the permission of its original registrant, or by abuse of privileges on domain hosting and registrar software systems.

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Domain name

In the Internet, a domain name is a string that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control.

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Domain name registry

A domain name registry is a database of all domain names and the associated registrant information in the top level domains of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet that enables third party entities to request administrative control of a domain name.

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Domain Name System

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical and distributed name service that provides a naming system for computers, services, and other resources on the Internet or other Internet Protocol (IP) networks. Domain Name System and Domain Name System are application layer protocols, Internet Standards and Internet properties established in 1983.

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Domain Name System blocklist

A Domain Name System blocklist, Domain Name System-based blackhole list, Domain Name System blacklist (DNSBL) or real-time blackhole list (RBL) is a service for operation of mail servers to perform a check via a Domain Name System (DNS) query whether a sending host's IP address is blacklisted for email spam.

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Domain Name System Security Extensions

The Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) are a suite of extension specifications by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for securing data exchanged in the Domain Name System (DNS) in Internet Protocol (IP) networks. Domain Name System and Domain Name System Security Extensions are Internet Standards.

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Dynamic DNS

Dynamic DNS (DDNS) is a method of automatically updating a name server in the Domain Name System (DNS), often in real time, with the active DDNS configuration of its configured hostnames, addresses or other information.

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Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a network management protocol used on Internet Protocol (IP) networks for automatically assigning IP addresses and other communication parameters to devices connected to the network using a client–server architecture. Domain Name System and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol are application layer protocols and Internet Standards.

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Elizabeth J. Feinler

Elizabeth Jocelyn "Jake" Feinler (born March 2, 1931) is an American information scientist.

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Email

Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of transmitting and receiving messages using electronic devices.

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Email address

An email address identifies an email box to which messages are delivered.

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Email client

An email client, email reader or, more formally, message user agent (MUA) or mail user agent is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email.

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Email spam

Email spam, also referred to as junk email, spam mail, or simply spam, is unsolicited messages sent in bulk by email (spamming).

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Example.com

The domain names example.com, example.net, example.org, and example.edu are second-level domain names in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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Extension Mechanisms for DNS

Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS) is a specification for expanding the size of several parameters of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol which had size restrictions that the Internet engineering community deemed too limited for increasing functionality of the protocol.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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Fault tolerance

Fault tolerance is the ability of a system to maintain proper operation despite failures or faults in one or more of its components.

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Forward-confirmed reverse DNS

Forward-confirmed reverse DNS (FCrDNS), also known as full-circle reverse DNS, double-reverse DNS, or iprev, is a networking parameter configuration in which a given IP address has both forward (name-to-address) and reverse (address-to-name) Domain Name System (DNS) entries that match each other.

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Fully qualified domain name

A fully qualified domain name (FQDN), sometimes also referred to as an absolute domain name, is a domain name that specifies its exact location in the tree hierarchy of the Domain Name System (DNS).

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Generic top-level domain

Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) are one of the categories of top-level domains (TLDs) maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for use in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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GitHub

GitHub is a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code.

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GoDaddy

GoDaddy Inc. is an American publicly traded Internet domain registry, domain registrar and web hosting company headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, and incorporated in Delaware.

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Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google.

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Hesiod (name service)

In computing, the Hesiod name service originated in Project Athena (1983–1991).

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Hostname

In computer networking, a hostname (archaically nodename) is a label that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network and that is used to identify the device in various forms of electronic communication, such as the World Wide Web.

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Hosts (file)

The computer file hosts is an operating system file that maps hostnames to IP addresses.

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HTTP/3

HTTP/3 is the third major version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol used to exchange information on the World Wide Web, complementing the widely-deployed HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2. Domain Name System and HTTP/3 are application layer protocols.

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ICANN

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a global multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization headquartered in the United States responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces and numerical spaces of the Internet, ensuring the Internet's stable and secure operation.

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IDN homograph attack

The internationalized domain name (IDN) homograph attack is a way a malicious party may deceive computer users about what remote system they are communicating with, by exploiting the fact that many different characters look alike (i.e., they are homographs, hence the term for the attack, although technically homoglyph is the more accurate term for different characters that look alike).

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Information Sciences Institute

The USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI) is a component of the University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering, and specializes in research and development in information processing, computing, and communications technologies.

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Internationalized domain name

An internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that contains at least one label displayed in software applications, in whole or in part, in non-Latin script or alphabet or in the Latin alphabet-based characters with diacritics or ligatures.

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Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is a standards organization that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System (DNS), media types, and other Internet Protocol–related symbols and Internet numbers.

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Internet censorship

Internet censorship is the legal control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet.

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Internet Engineering Task Force

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a standards organization for the Internet and is responsible for the technical standards that make up the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP).

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Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated as IE or MSIE) is a retired series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft that were used in the Windows line of operating systems.

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Internet Protocol

The Internet Protocol (IP) is the network layer communications protocol in the Internet protocol suite for relaying datagrams across network boundaries.

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Internet protocol suite

The Internet protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, is a framework for organizing the set of communication protocols used in the Internet and similar computer networks according to functional criteria.

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Internet service provider

An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides myriad services related to accessing, using, managing, or participating in the Internet.

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Internet Society

The Internet Society (ISOC) is an American nonprofit advocacy organization founded in 1992 with local chapters around the world. Domain Name System and Internet Society are Internet Standards.

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Internet Standard

In computer network engineering, an Internet Standard is a normative specification of a technology or methodology applicable to the Internet. Domain Name System and Internet Standard are Internet Standards.

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Internet Systems Consortium

Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., also known as ISC, is an American non-profit corporation that supports the infrastructure of the universal, self-organizing Internet by developing and maintaining core production-quality software, protocols, and operations.

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InterNIC

InterNIC, known as the Network Information Center (NIC) until 1993, was the organization primarily responsible for Domain Name System (DNS) domain name allocations and X.500 directory services.

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IOS

iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system developed by Apple exclusively for its smartphones.

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IP address

An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label such as that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.

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IPv4

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is the first version of the Internet Protocol (IP) as a standalone specification. Domain Name System and IPv4 are Internet Standards.

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IPv6

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet.

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IPv6 brokenness and DNS whitelisting

In the field of IPv6 deployment, IPv6 brokenness was bad behavior seen in early tunneled or dual stack IPv6 deployments where unreliable or bogus IPv6 connectivity is chosen in preference to working IPv4 connectivity.

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Jon Postel

Jonathan Bruce Postel (August 6, 1943 – October 16, 1998) was an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards.

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List of DNS record types

This list of DNS record types is an overview of resource records (RRs) permissible in zone files of the Domain Name System (DNS).

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List of managed DNS providers

This is a list of notable managed DNS providers in a comparison table.

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Load balancing (computing)

In computing, load balancing is the process of distributing a set of tasks over a set of resources (computing units), with the aim of making their overall processing more efficient.

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Man-in-the-middle attack

In cryptography and computer security, a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack, or on-path attack, is a cyberattack where the attacker secretly relays and possibly alters the communications between two parties who believe that they are directly communicating with each other, as the attacker has inserted themselves between the two user parties.

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Master–slave (technology)

Master–slave is a model of asymmetric communication or control where one device or process (the master) controls one or more other devices or processes (the slaves) and serves as their communication hub.

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Message transfer agent

Within the Internet email system, a message transfer agent (MTA), mail transfer agent, or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.

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Michael J. Karels

Michael J. Karels (August 2, 1956 – June 2, 2024) was an American software engineer and one of the key figures in history of BSD UNIX.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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Multicast DNS

In computer networking, the multicast DNS (mDNS) protocol resolves hostnames to IP addresses within small networks that do not include a local name server. Domain Name System and multicast DNS are application layer protocols.

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MX record

A mail exchanger record (MX record) specifies the mail server responsible for accepting email messages on behalf of a domain name.

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Name server

A name server is a computer application that implements a network service for providing responses to queries against a directory service.

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Namespace

In computing, a namespace is a set of signs (names) that are used to identify and refer to objects of various kinds.

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Negative cache

In computer programming, negative cache is a cache that also stores "negative" responses, i.e. failures.

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Netflix

Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.

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Octet (computing)

The octet is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that consists of eight bits.

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Onion routing

Onion routing is a technique for anonymous communication over a computer network.

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OpenDNS

OpenDNS is an American company providing Domain Name System (DNS) resolution services—with features such as phishing protection, optional content filtering, and DNS lookup in its DNS servers—and a cloud computing security product suite, Umbrella, designed to protect enterprise customers from malware, botnets, phishing, and targeted online attacks.

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OpenNIC

OpenNIC (also referred to as the OpenNIC Project) is a user-owned and -controlled top-level Network Information Center that offers a non-national alternative to traditional top-level domain (TLD) registries such as ICANN.

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Paul Mockapetris

Paul V. Mockapetris (born 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts, US) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, who invented the Internet Domain Name System (DNS).

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Paul Vixie

Paul Vixie is an American computer scientist whose technical contributions include Domain Name System (DNS) protocol design and procedure, mechanisms to achieve operational robustness of DNS implementations, and significant contributions to open source software principles and methodology.

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Phishing

Phishing is a form of social engineering and a scam where attackers deceive people into revealing sensitive information or installing malware such as viruses, worms, adware, or ransomware.

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Port (computer networking)

In computer networking, a port or port number is a number assigned to uniquely identify a connection endpoint and to direct data to a specific service.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Proxy server

In computer networking, a proxy server is a server application that acts as an intermediary between a client requesting a resource and the server providing that resource.

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Public Interest Registry

Public Interest Registry is a not-for-profit based in Reston, Virginia, created by the Internet Society in 2002 to manage the.ORG top-level domain.

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Public recursive name server

A public recursive name server (also called public DNS resolver) is a name server service that networked computers may use to query the Domain Name System (DNS), the decentralized Internet naming system, in place of (or in addition to) name servers operated by the local Internet service provider (ISP) to which the devices are connected.

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Punycode

Punycode is a representation of Unicode with the limited ASCII character subset used for Internet hostnames.

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QUIC

QUIC is a general-purpose transport layer network protocol initially designed by Jim Roskind at Google.

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Registration Data Access Protocol

The Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) is a computer network communications protocol standardized by a working group at the Internet Engineering Task Force in 2015, after experimental developments and thorough discussions. Domain Name System and Registration Data Access Protocol are Internet Standards.

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Request for Comments

A Request for Comments (RFC) is a publication in a series from the principal technical development and standards-setting bodies for the Internet, most prominently the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Domain Name System and Request for Comments are Internet Standards.

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Residential gateway

A residential gateway is a small consumer-grade gateway which bridges network access between connected local area network (LAN) hosts to a wide area network (WAN) (such as the Internet) via a modem, or directly connects to a WAN (as in EttH), while routing.

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Resolv.conf

resolv.conf is the name of a computer file used in various operating systems to configure the system's Domain Name System (DNS) resolver.

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Reverse DNS lookup

In computer networks, a reverse DNS lookup or reverse DNS resolution (rDNS) is the querying technique of the Domain Name System (DNS) to determine the domain name associated with an IP address – the reverse of the usual "forward" DNS lookup of an IP address from a domain name.

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Rick Adams (Internet pioneer)

Richard L. "Rick" Adams, Jr. is an American Internet pioneer.

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Root name server

A root name server is a name server for the root zone of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet.

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Round-robin DNS

Round-robin DNS is a technique of load distribution, load balancing, or fault-tolerance provisioning multiple, redundant Internet Protocol service hosts, e.g., Web server, FTP servers, by managing the Domain Name System's (DNS) responses to address requests from client computers according to an appropriate statistical model.

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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an Internet standard communication protocol for electronic mail transmission.

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Slashdot

Slashdot (sometimes abbreviated as /.) is a social news website that originally billed itself as "News for Nerds.

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Sniffing attack

Sniffing attack in context of network security, corresponds to theft or interception of data by capturing the network traffic using a packet sniffer (an application aimed at capturing network packets).

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SOA record

A start of authority record (abbreviated as SOA record) is a type of resource record in the Domain Name System (DNS) containing administrative information about the zone, especially regarding zone transfers.

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Split-horizon DNS

In computer networking, split-horizon DNS (also known as split-view DNS, split-brain DNS, or split DNS) is the facility of a Domain Name System (DNS) implementation to provide different sets of DNS information, usually selected by the source address of the DNS request.

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SRI International

SRI International (SRI) is an American nonprofit scientific research institute and organization headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

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String (computer science)

In computer programming, a string is traditionally a sequence of characters, either as a literal constant or as some kind of variable.

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Subdomain

In the Domain Name System (DNS) hierarchy, a subdomain is a domain that is a part of another (main) domain.

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Telephone

A telephone, colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly.

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Telephone directory

A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Time to live

Time to live (TTL) or hop limit is a mechanism which limits the lifespan or lifetime of data in a computer or network.

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Top-level domain

A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet after the root domain.

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Tor (network)

Tor is a free overlay network for enabling anonymous communication. Domain Name System and Tor (network) are application layer protocols and Internet Standards.

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Transmission Control Protocol

The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the main protocols of the Internet protocol suite.

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Tree (data structure)

In computer science, a tree is a widely used abstract data type that represents a hierarchical tree structure with a set of connected nodes.

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TSIG

TSIG (transaction signature) is a computer-networking protocol defined in RFC 2845. Domain Name System and TSIG are Internet Standards.

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Tunneling protocol

In computer networks, a tunneling protocol is a communication protocol which allows for the movement of data from one network to another.

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Typeface

A typeface (or font family) is a design of letters, numbers and other symbols, to be used in printing or for electronic display.

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Ubiquitous computing

Ubiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") is a concept in software engineering, hardware engineering and computer science where computing is made to appear seamlessly anytime and everywhere.

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Unicode

Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized.

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Universal Coded Character Set

The Universal Coded Character Set (UCS, Unicode) is a standard set of characters defined by the international standard ISO/IEC 10646, Information technology — Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) (plus amendments to that standard), which is the basis of many character encodings, improving as characters from previously unrepresented typing systems are added.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of Chicago

The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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University of Southern California

The University of Southern California (USC, SC, Southern Cal) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Unix

Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.

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URL

A uniform resource locator (URL), colloquially known as an address on the Web, is a reference to a resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.

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User Datagram Protocol

In computer networking, the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is one of the core communication protocols of the Internet protocol suite used to send messages (transported as datagrams in packets) to other hosts on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. Domain Name System and user Datagram Protocol are Internet Standards.

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Verisign

Verisign, Inc. is an American company based in Reston, Virginia, that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the,, and generic top-level domains and the country-code top-level domains, and the back-end systems for the and sponsored top-level domains.

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Virtual hosting

Virtual hosting is a method for hosting multiple domain names (with separate handling of each name) on a single server (or pool of servers).

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Virtual private network

Virtual private network (VPN) is a network architecture for virtually extending a private network (i.e. any computer network which is not the public Internet) across one or multiple other networks which are either untrusted (as they are not controlled by the entity aiming to implement the VPN) or need to be isolated (thus making the lower network invisible or not directly usable).

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Web browser

A web browser is an application for accessing websites.

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WHOIS

WHOIS (pronounced as the phrase "who is") is a query and response protocol that is used for querying databases that store an Internet resource's registered users or assignees. Domain Name System and WHOIS are Internet Standards.

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Wi-Fi hotspot

A hotspot is a physical location where people can obtain Internet access, typically using Wi-Fi technology, via a wireless local-area network (WLAN) using a router connected to an Internet service provider.

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Wildcard DNS record

A wildcard DNS record is a record in a DNS zone that will match requests for non-existent domain names.

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Zone file

A Domain Name System (DNS) zone file is a text file that describes a DNS zone.

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.arpa

The domain name arpa is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet.

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.edu

The domain name.edu is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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.onion

.onion is a special-use top-level domain name designating an anonymous onion service, which was formerly known as a "hidden service", reachable via the Tor network.

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See also

Internet properties established in 1983

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System

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