Domain Name System

English

Proper noun

Domain Name System

1. (computing, Internet) The distributed database, sometimes including all the supporting hardware or software infrastructure, the Internet uses to translate hostnames into IP addresses and provide other domain-related information.
   • BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2), Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., https://web.archive.org/web/20060619063455/http://www.bind9.net/manual/bind/9.3.2/Bv9ARM.ch01.html

     The purpose of this document is to explain the installation and upkeep of the BIND software package, and we begin by reviewing the fundamentals of the Domain Name System (DNS) as they relate to BIND. ... The Domain Name System (DNS) is the hierarchical, distributed database. It stores information for mapping Internet host names to IP addresses and vice versa, mail routing information, and other data used by Internet applications.

Synonyms

• DNS

Translations

hostname translation database

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 域名系統／域名系统 (wik⁶ meng^4-2 hai⁶ tung²)

  Mandarin: 域名系統／域名系统 (yùmíng xìtǒng), 網域名稱系統／网域名称系统 (wǎngyù míngchēng xìtǒng)

• Esperanto: domajna nomsistemo
• Finnish: verkkotunnusjärjestelmä
• French: système de noms de domaine m, système d’adressage par domaines (fr) m, adressage par domaines m, annuaire des domaines m
• Greek: Σύστημα Ονοματοδοσίας Διαδικτύου n (Sýstima Onomatodosías Diadiktýou)
• Thai: ระบบการตั้งชื่อโดเมน (rá-bòp gaan dtâng chêu-doh-mayn)

See also

• domain name
• domain name server