Learning Objectives for CS 332, DNS
Students will be able to...
- Explain what benefits/functionality the DNS system provides to users.
- Explain how scalability is accomplished, through hierarchical naming, distributed responsibility, and caching.
- Explain the various parts of a domain name.
- Illustrate the tree of name servers, and how they communicate with each other to perform a name resolution.
- Explain how caching allows the system to scale.