Feb 2 · 5 min read · Imagine if every time you wanted to call a friend, you had to memorize a random 12-digit string like 142.250.190.46. You’d probably give up on technology entirely. In the early days of ARPANET, researchers actually had to manually copy a file called ...
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Jan 31 · 4 min read · Let’s say one fine day Mr. Techie thought when I type google.com or hashnode.com into my browser, and boom the site loads. How? How did your laptop know exactly which server in the world to connect to ? The answer is DNS. If you've ever set up a webs...
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Jan 21 · 6 min read · Before the arrival of DNS the internet already existed Machines could talk to machinesPackets could moveConnectivity was not the problem. The real problem scalable namingNetworks route using IP addresses, not names.IP addresses can change, and people...
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