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DNS FOR BEGINNERS: WHAT IS IT, HOW DOES IT WORK AND WHAT IS IT FOR?
DNS is a distributed system made for receiving the information about domains. Simply put, DNS servers are an equivalent of a phonebook, where a contact's name is a name of a website and a number is an IP-address on the internet. As soon as you are about to enter any website the distributed DNS system lets a browser quickly "get through" to a particular recipient, in other words - to access the resource.
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