DNS
About DNS
The Domain Name System, defined in RFC 1034 and 1035 by Paul Mockapetris, translates names like example.com into IP addresses. Its distributed hierarchy of root, top level and authoritative servers resolves hundreds of billions of queries daily, with encrypted variants adding privacy.
Related Standards
IPv4
Internet Protocol version 4, defined in RFC 791 in 1981, has a 32 bit address space of about 4.3 billion addresses. The central...
IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6 expands addressing to 128 bits, providing roughly 340 undecillion addresses. Standardized through RFC...
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol, specified in RFC 793 with Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn as architects, provides reliable ordered delivery...
HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol, devised by Tim Berners-Lee around 1990, moves web resources between browsers and servers. HTTP/1.1...