Книга: Fedora™ Unleashed, 2008 edition

Name Resolution in Practice

Name Resolution in Practice

When a web browser issues a request for an IP address, the request is sent to a local name- server, which resolves the name, stores the result in its cache, and returns the IP address. DNS can be a fascinating and extremely in-depth subject — see the "Reference" section at the end of this chapter for further reading.