Working of DNS -Understand easily
SHIVRAJ YADAV
A DNS (Domain Name System) server is a critical component of the internet that acts as a translator, mapping human-readable domain names (like google.com) to the numerical IP addresses that computers use to communicate
• "Ever wondered how typing 'google.com' connects you to the vast internet?"
• "DNS: The unsung hero making the internet user-friendly." “DNS is like the internet's phonebook.
It translates human-readable domain names into IP addresses, enabling browsers to load websites.”
Root Server
The authoritative name servers that serve the DNS root zone, commonly known as the “root servers”, are a network of hundreds of servers in many countries around the world. They are configured in the DNS root zone as 13 named authorities, as follows.
List of Root Servers
| Server | IP Address | Located |
| a.root-servers.net | 198.41.0.4, 2001:503:ba3e::2:30 | Verisign, Inc. |
| b.root-servers.net | 170.247.170.2, 2801:1b8:10::b | University of Southern California, |
| c.root-servers.net | 192.33.4.12, 2001:500:2::c | Information Sciences Institute cogent communication |
| d.root-servers.net | 199.7.91.13, 2001:500:2d::d | University of Maryland |
| e.root-servers.net | 192.203.230.10, 2001:500:a8::e | NASA (Ames Research Center) |
| f.root-servers.net | 192.5.5.241, 2001:500:2f::f | Internet Systems Consortium, inc |
| g.root-servers.net | 192.112.36.4, 2001:500:12::d0d | US Department of Defense (NIC) |
| h.root-servers.net | 198.97.190.53, 2001:500:1::53 | US Army (Research Lab) |
| .root-servers.net | 192.36.148.17, 2001:7fe::53 | Netnod |
| .root-servers.net | 192.58.128.30, 2001:503:c27::2:30 | Verisign, Inc. |
| k.root-servers.net | 193.0.14.129, 2001:7fd::1 | RIPE NCC |
| l.root-servers.net | 199.7.83.42, 2001:500:9f::42 | ICANN |
Map Of Root Server
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