Domain Name System (“DNS”) refers to the way traffic is directed on IP-based networks such as the Internet. You should be familiar with the term Internet Protocol (“IP”) which is the address name system for the Internet. DNS is like the postal system of the Internet.
In this tutorial:
Required knowledge:
1. DNS lookup
Human-friendly website addresses (like www.google.com) are looked up in a table on a DNS server and translated into IP addresses (142.250.191.78).
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2. ipconfig
If you want to see the details of your computer’s DNS, you can use the ipconfig command on your Windows PC or laptop.
- Open the Windows Command Prompt + r, type cmd, press Enter
- Type ipconfig /all at the command prompt and press Enter
- In this example, the laptop is connected using the Wi-Fi adapter
- The Default Gateway is the DNS server
References:
- Domain Name System – Wikipedia (2023). Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System (Accessed: 13 June 2023).
- What is DNS? | How DNS works | Cloudflare. [online]. Available at: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/what-is-dns/