How DNS Servers Work: The Internet’s Phone Book

#EP27 The Distributed Database That Handles 5+ Billion Users

You type google.com into your browser. Less than 50 milliseconds later, you’re staring at the search page.

But here’s what most people don’t realize: your computer doesn’t understand “google.com.” It needs an IP address — something like 142.250.185.46.

So how does that translation happen?

Enter DNS: the Domain Name System.

It’s the infrastructure that makes…