Basic DNS.

Here’s a simplified breakdown of how DNS works.

DNS, or Domain Name System, is like the phonebook of the internet. When you type a website address into your browser, like webzone.ca. DNS is what translates that human-readable domain name into the actual IP address of the server where the website is hosted.

You type a URL into your browser. The URL is the address of a website. URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator.

Your computer will send a request to a DNS server, asking for the IP address associated with the domain you entered.

If the DNS server has the IP address in its records, it sends that back to your computer. If not, it will forward the request to other DNS servers until it finds the information.

Your computer now knows the IP address of the website’s server and can connect to it, fetching the website and displaying it in your browser.

In essence, DNS acts as the internet’s address book, translating human-friendly domain names into computer-friendly IP addresses. It’s a crucial part of how we navigate the web, even though we might not think about it often.

Some websites use shared hosting where many websites are hosted on the same IP address.

Other websites are on dedicated hosting plans or on a dedicated IP address. A dedicated IP address prevents your website from inheriting the characteristics of other websites. This prevents IP address associated blacklisting.