{"id":357,"date":"2005-08-19T14:40:27","date_gmt":"2005-08-19T18:40:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:45","slug":"dns_glossary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2005\/08\/19\/dns_glossary\/","title":{"rendered":"DNS Glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>The standard Internet user will open up their browser, type in a domain name, and visit a site. Almost always this works perfectly, and they don&#8217;t realize the incredibly complex system that keeps this going. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=define%3Adns\">DNS<\/a> (domain name system) is what matches up a domain name with an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;q=define%3Aip&amp;btnG=Search&amp;meta=\">IP<\/a> address. A problem with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=define%3Adns\">DNS<\/a> can cause sites to be down. If an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;q=define%3Aisp&amp;btnG=Search&amp;meta=\">ISP<\/a> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=define%3Adns\">DNS<\/a> problem, it is possible that all of their customers will be unable to visit any site.<br \/>\nMost people don&#8217;t need to learn about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=define%3Adns\">DNS<\/a>, but if you are interested, a good place to start is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.menandmice.com\/online_docs_and_faq\/glossary\/glossarytoc.htm\">Men &amp; Mice&#8217;s DNS Glossary<\/a>. There are 91 terms defined. Each entry links to other entries where appropriate, and also provides a <em>See also&#8230;<\/em> section for related topics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The standard Internet user will open up their browser, type in a domain name, and visit a site. Almost always this works perfectly, and they don&#8217;t realize the incredibly complex system that keeps this going. DNS (domain name system) is what matches up a domain name with an IP address. A problem with DNS can &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommended-web-sites","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}