DNS Records

What is DNS and Why is DNS Needed? DNS stands for ‘Domain Name System’ or ‘Domain Name Server.’ All web sites, web apps and other resources on the internet are uniquely identified through IP addresses. For example, 8.8.8.8 is google.com’s IP address. Computers work well with numbers, but humans cannot remember the IP addresses of all the resources that they want to visit on the internet and words are easier to remember than a string of numbers (in case of IPv4) or an alphanumeric string (in case of IPv6), so every resource has a unique URL (Eg: github....

September 11, 2021 · 7 min · Harsh Kapadia