... a way to "translate" human memorable names into IP addresses. It is much easier for a human to remember google.com rather than to remember the IP address that corresponds with this web server: 216.239.37.99. Computers tend to work much better with numbers than with names; where humans tend to reverse that order. In an effort to resolve this inconsistency, the Domain Name Server was developed to efficiently convert the human-readable domain name into the computer readable IP address. HISTORY During the 1960's, when the number of computers was very limited to perhaps several dozen, names were resolved with an aid of simple text file. The text file used a method that would store the domain names and appropriate IP addresses they corresponded to, this method required users to have knowledge of each IP address that they required to access. The simple text file worked well due to the low number of computers ...

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