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February 2003
slideset 1 -13
Concept: DNS Names 2
How names appear in the DNS
nFully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)
nWWW.RIPE.NET.
nlabels separated by dots
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nDNS provides a mapping from FQDNs to resources of several types
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nNames are used as a key when fetching data in the DNS
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Note the trailing dot