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This service maps TCP/IP numbers, such as 123.12.4.245, to a more easily remembered name, such as www.geek.com. Thus, when you type www.geek.com into your browser, it goes out to the DNS server specified by your ISP and asks for a matching TCP/IP address.If the browser finds a DNS entry for the name you typed in, you see the appropriate website. If not, it lets you know. Every domain name that is actually being used for
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DNS - By Christine BoeseCNN Headline News(CNN) -- Do you remember the day you first surfed the Web, stretchedout your arms over the vastness of cyberspace, teleported from site tosite with an almost exhilarating power? Or alternately, sat waitingfor "fat" pages to load?Well, hang on to your hats boys and girls, because your experience ofthe World Wide Web is about to change, possibly for the first timesince Mosaic, one of the first graphical browsers, was unleashed in1993 from Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.If I'm saying the Web is changing and that you'd better get on boardor miss out, I'd better be prepared to back it up. I believe I can.In a previous column, (To Blog or not to Blog?), I wrote about how theblog movement is changing the Web by giving more people a voiceonline. But a parallel movement is also changing the online experiencefor ordinary surfers.The point of entry into this efficient and focused style of surfingdoes not involve search engines. Instead, many users, learning frombloggers, are setting aside their browsers at certain times to usenews feed readers, sometimes called "news aggregators," instead.Try out the new on-ramphttp://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/03/15/new.web/index.html
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