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When you entered <strong>www.silkstream.net<\/strong> into your browsers <strong>URL<\/strong> panel, a connection                  was made to one or many of these databases requesting <strong>www.silkstream.net<\/strong> be resolved to its respective IP address. When the name was resolved it was sent back to your computer and a connection was made with the Silkstream web server. All this toing and froing happens at near the speed of light, so you would never really know all the hard your PC has done just to display this web page on your screen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Domain Name System is a mechanism for matching all the Internet&#8217;s host names to their relevant IP addresses. You see, if you wanted to access this site without the facility of DNS, you would have to know its IP address, which is incidentally 193.119.128.38. can imagine, trying to remember all your favourite sites&#8217; numerical addresses would be quite a pain. 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