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Internet applications Bill Chu Email: an internet killer app Web-based email POP: downloading emails IMAP: storing email remotely Mail spams Email viruses Anatomy of a web applicationSanctum systems ? Bei-Tseng Chu Aug 2000 * Need for Domain Name Service (DNS) Natively, a TCP host is identified by its IP address hosts uses IP addresses to communicate to each other the whole TCP/IP system software is based on using IP address IP address is not user friendly names can not be easily remembered User should use meaningful names to human instead of IP address Domain name service fills the gap let user use domain names for hosts (human friendly) map domain names into IP addresses machines use for TCP/IP application layer Domain name service (DNS) is basically a naming scheme to name IP hosts in the Internet a service that provides mappings from domain names to corresponding IP addresses IP addresses to corresponding domain names Common naming schemes flat scheme: no structure in names e.g., SSN and Ethernet addresses hierarchical scheme: tree structures in names e.g., UNIX file path DNS uses a hierarchical scheme names organized as recursive domains of names DNS Concepts Domain Name: a Hierarchy of Domains Domain is a collection of hosts and a collection of subdomains is represented as a tree domain name is the root name a host name is a path from the root to the host a subdomain is a path to the domain host subdomain … ... Domain X Y W V a a b 1 2 3 Domain X Y W V a 1 a=X.W.a a 3 ws1 ws2 = X.Y.a.ws2 Typical Domains Educational: edu is a subdomain in edu is a host under domain is a subdomain in domain Commercial: com Nonprofit organization: org governmental: gov geographical country: au, cn, ca, … state: california.us One host can be in multiple domains! DNS Server Who Does the Mappings DNS server is responsible for mappings each domain must have at least one DNS server duplicated DNS servers are common need to some mappings, talk to your local DNS serv