https://www.compilemymind.com/tags/dns/ Recent content in Dns on Compile My Mind Hugo en Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0300 https://www.compilemymind.com/posts/dns-explained-how-your-browser-finds-a-website/ Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0300 https://www.compilemymind.com/posts/dns-explained-how-your-browser-finds-a-website/ <p>When you type <code>compilemymind.com</code> into a browser, your computer does not magically know where that website lives. The browser needs an IP address before it can connect to a server.</p> <p>That is what <strong>DNS</strong> does.</p> <p><strong>DNS</strong>, short for <strong>Domain Name System</strong>, is the internet&rsquo;s naming system. It translates human-friendly names like <code>www.example.com</code> into machine-usable addresses like <code>93.184.216.34</code> or an IPv6 address such as <code>2606:2800:220:1:248:1893:25c8:1946</code>.</p> <p>The simplest version:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span class="line"><span class="cl">You type a domain name. </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">DNS finds the IP address. </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">Your browser connects to that IP address. </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">The website loads. </span></span></code></pre></div><p>But the real process is more interesting. DNS involves caches, recursive resolvers, root servers, TLD servers, authoritative nameservers, record types, time-to-live values, and sometimes privacy or security layers such as DNS over HTTPS and DNSSEC.</p>