Domain Name System (DNS) (DNS)
Technology› Operating System› Microsoft Windows› Microsoft Windows Server
Microsoft Active Directory
Hierarchical distributed database used for name/address translation and client-server rendezvous. Domain Name System is the namespace used on the Internet to translate computer and service names into TCP/IP addresses. Active Directory uses DNS as its location service, and so clients find domain controllers via DNS queries.
Technology› Parallel Computing› Cloud Computing
Amazon Web Services
A distributed naming system that associates network information with human-readable domain names on the Internet.
- — AWS ElastiCache User Guide Glossary retrieved 2014-05-26
Storage
An Internet service for finding computers on an IP network.
Telecommunications
The set of databases that performs the correspondence between an IP address and the fully qualified domain name. Note: The domain name system contains a kind of naming tree for IP addresses, hosts, and domains, identifying each Internet node unambiguously. [2382-pt.35] 2. The online distributed database system that (a) is used to map human-readable addresses into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, (b) has servers throughout the Internet to implement hierarchical addressing that allows a site administrator to assign machine names and addresses, (c) supports separate mappings between mail destinations and IP addresses, and (d) uses domain names that (i) consist of a sequence of names, i.e., labels, separated by periods, i.e., dots, (ii) usually are used to name Internet host computers uniquely, (iii) are hierarchical, and (iv) are processed from right to left, such as the host nic.ddn.mil has a name (nic -- the Network Information Center), a subdomain (ddn -- the Defense Data Network), and a primary domain (mil -- the MILNET).