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Uploaded by on Apr 8, 2010

Short animated video explaining how the Domain Name System, or DNS, works.

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  • Thank god it doesn't take that long in real life

  • oh wow, the internet really IS a series of tubes!

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  • Almost understood it.. Still leaves for me two questions open:

    1- Where does the searching happen thats shown at 1:07 ? On the Computer? Router? from the ISP?

    2-As said, .CA nameserver is 192.228.26.135. This is a computer thats linking requests to webpages right? At what IP is the .com server? What happens if this server should break down?

  • very  well

  • @jakobcornell It didn't take long at all. You just didn't pay attention to the sugar cube detail.

  • the best music video

  • People. Just remember the IP. We can remember phonenumbers too!

  • I never noticed the dot going to get an iP. Wow!

  • @TheReasonWhyGuy oh yeah :)

  • @jakobcornell that's why they showed him dropping a sugar cube into his coffee :P

  • wow..... was watching an hour lecture on DNS but this just told me all of what i had learned in less than 3 minutes. Great preparation for my exam, im sure i will remember this video rather than some guy talking (from slides) about DNS :D

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