RE: UKNM: What if it's all shite? (was .TV)

[Richard Bailey]

DNS a quick snap shot.  (try to stay awake there is a point there)


DNS was an advance in networks that Microsoft helped implement and sun

Microsystems helped developed for the Unix environment.  Numbers mean

nothing to our memory and mnemonics with names are easy to understand the

structure of a network and where you are in the files and computers.  IP

addresses 192.168.0.1 are resolved from the "name" e.g.. www.godado.co.uk

(free plug).  DNS stands for Directory Name Server.  You would still need

the DNS to resolve telephone numbers in to IP headers so as you packets of

data can find your computer on the return journey and transmission receipts

for your packets can find the way back so as the next one can be sent.


The only reason we use www. was to separate the "World Wide Web" from the

massive intranets already passing data across the network.  The .com comes

from the file extension of a command program which is the way DOS (dead OS

windows can emulate if needed) and Unix used to show a program and just

became directory names as if the pages inside were a program.  There is no

real reason for them being called .com . We could just be http://godadoUK

and all the DNS servers in the world could resolve our IP address from that,

anything else is just using an old system to make money.


Reminds me of the deregulation of number plates in the US.  A free for all

every time a new stat deregulated.


Richard Bailey

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