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    what is a DNS server ?

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      DNS means Domain Name System or Domain name server  which helps to transfer ip address to domain name and domain name to ip addresses.It plays vital role in internet technology.For example,if you provide domain name like Google.com it convert the domain name into particular ip address.If you provide the ip address like 74.125.239.9 the DNS search for the particular website and display on your browser.DNS consist of many resource records.Some of them are A record,CNAME record,DNAME record etc., You can check domain to ip ,Ip to domain and DNS query using the site  Whoisxy.com  .

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