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suppose I were to get into a taxi after a night on the town and tell the driver

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Linus's house when he asked me where we're headed unless the driver somehow

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very creepily already knows where I live he'll probably tell me to stop being a

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tool and give him an actual address where he can actually drop me off and

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although that scenario has probably

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occurred in plenty of taxi cabs where drivers have had to deal with people

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that ran up way too high of a bab that night your computer or phone can have a

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much easier time figuring out where to take you on the internet thanks to the

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domain name system commonly referred to as DNS you see even though most of us

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get to our favorite websites by punching in addresses like youtube.com or

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vessel.com your browser actually needs to know the IP address of the site

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you're trying to access so to do this it

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sends a request to the DNS which is sort of like the internet's version of yellow

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pages that matches a site URL or a

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uniform resource locator to an IP address so a DNS request first goes to a

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recursive name server which is typically operated by your internet service

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provider but you can also use public servers managed by Google or other

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organizations if your isp's resolver is having issues a recursive name server

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might have the IP address of the website you want to access already stored but if

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it doesn't it will go to one of 13 root

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servers which manage requests for top level domains like or.org although that

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seems like a tiny number of servers by the way they actually use redundant

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physical Hardware all over the globe to make sure these requests are handled and

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handled quickly your request is then

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sent to the appropriate top domain server.com if you're trying to get to

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YouTube for example which will then contact authoritative name servers that

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contain a well authoritative list of IP

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addresses and matching URLs which is updated whenever someone buys and

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registers a domain once the IP address

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you want is retrieved it's sent back to the recursive name server and then onto

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your computer to save time in the future and make things more efficient both the

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recurs name server and your own computer will cash DNS entries for a while so the

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next time you want to visit YouTube you won't have to go through this whole

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rigar Ral instead your computer will either know the correct IP right away or

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it will be able to get it directly from the recursive server DNS usually works

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fairly well for most people but if a website changes IP addresses this can

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cause problems especially if your computer is trying to use its own own

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cash this will usually manifest as lots of random 404 errors or taxi drivers

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taking you to the wrong place if we were to hearken back to our original analogy

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so if you're running Windows it's actually pretty easy to clear out your

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DNS cach just by opening the command prompt as an administrator and entering

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this command which hopefully will fix the problem however you could run into

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more serious problems if a piece of malware has poisoned your DNS cache by

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making DNS entries that are stored locally that point to malicious websites

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for example an attacker could tell your PC to make

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irs.gov point to the IP address of a

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website running a tax scam that tries to convince you to give up your personal

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information so if you're getting weird redirects like this running a reputable

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anti-malware application may be able to help but despite its vulnerabilities DNS

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has made the internet extremely easy to use for many people because thanks to it

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we don't have to punch in numerical IP addresses like like phone numbers except

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longer every time we want to surf the web and given how hard it is for people

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to remember phone numbers that's just not a world I would want to live in

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