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DNS Server Installation Step by Step Using CentOS 6.3

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DNS, Domain Name System, translates hostnames or URLs into IP addresses. For example if we type http://www.unixmen.com in browser, the DNS server translates the domain name into its associated ip address. Since the IP addresses are hard to remember, DNS servers are used to translate the hostnames like http://www.unixmen.com to 173.xxx.xx.xxx. So it makes easy to remember the domain names instead of its ip address.

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