Scotley's and Leif's Constables of the 14th Ward [3.5E D&D] [OOC 02]

[Leif]

Oh, Scotttleyyyy!

So, oh Guru of ENWorld, just what was the major malfunction today??

 

[Scotley]

I heard they were trying to resolve some sort of DNS issue with some ISP's. I guess the tinkering threw everything off.

 

[Rhun]

I work with a lot of data circuits, and it is amazing how many problems are caused by DNS issues.

 

[Leif]

DNS? "Damnable Nerfed Server"?

 

[Rhun]

DNS? "Damnable Nerfed Server"?

Or something like that. Stupid DNS. Then again, without it I guess the internet would be a much less friendly place.

 

[Leif]

You still didn't tell me what in the world DNS means.

Another guess: Digital Nucleic Symbiont?

 

[Rhun]

You still didn't tell me what in the world DNS means.

Another guess: Digital Nucleic Symbiont?

Oh, I thought you knew and were just messing around. It stands for Domain Name Server. It basically translates names with IP address, such as EN World with the IP address for the site. It gets complicated, but if everything doesn't match right it can lead to a lot of problems.

 

[Lou]

Domain Name Server or Domain Name Service or Domain Name System

It's how devices on the Internet tell each other where they are. While people talk about enworld.org or yahoo.com, the computers think in terms of an IP address of numbers. It's essentially a series of interconnected lookup tables that are constantly updated. When it gets hacked, updates are blocked, or interconnections fail, the routers get confused on where to route the next packet with a given address, so they queue them up and retry until the packets timeout and get deleted.

 

[Rhun]

Yeah, what Lou said! Since he did a much better job of explaining than I did.

 

[Leif]

Yeah, what Lou said! Since he did a much better job of explaining than I did.

Domain Name Server or Domain Name Service or Domain Name System
It's how devices on the Internet tell each other where they are. While people talk about enworld.org or yahoo.com, the computers think in terms of an IP address of numbers. It's essentially a series of interconnected lookup tables that are constantly updated. When it gets hacked, updates are blocked, or interconnections fail, the routers get confused on where to route the next packet with a given address, so they queue them up and retry until the packets timeout and get deleted.

Oh, I thought you knew and were just messing around. It stands for Domain Name Server. It basically translates names with IP address, such as EN World with the IP address for the site. It gets complicated, but if everything doesn't match right it can lead to a lot of problems.

Thanks guys! Rhun, I thought your explanation was just fine, too! But, I do appreciate Lou answering me with the degree of overkill that I've come to expect from his over-educated butt over the years!

related question: is there just one DNS for the whole internet, or what? That must be what they keep on that 1972 floppy drive down the hall from the john in the basement of the Pentagon!