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The 27 pages that link to Domain Name System, each with the reason it gives.

• InternetRelated: DNS lets people use names such as example.com instead of numeric addresses.

• World Wide WebRelated: DNS helps browsers locate the servers named in Web addresses.

• Content delivery networkCompared with: DNS can direct users toward CDN locations, but it does not itself deliver cached content.

• Computer networkRelated: DNS maps human-readable Internet names to addresses used for network communication.

• HTTPRelated: Clients use DNS to locate servers named in web addresses.

• Web browserRelated: DNS helps browsers locate the servers named in web addresses.

• Client–server modelRelated: Clients commonly use it to locate the server named in a request.

• EmailRelated: Mail servers use DNS records to find where a domain receives email.

• IP addressRelated: DNS lets people use domain names while network connections rely on destination IP addresses.

• Internet protocol suiteRelated: DNS lets applications locate Internet hosts using names rather than numeric addresses.

• Internet governanceBroader topic: Its global uniqueness requires coordinated rules for registries, registrars, and names.

• Web serverRelated: DNS helps clients locate the network address serving a website.

• Web crawlerRelated: A crawler relies on DNS resolution to connect to web servers.

• Internet Engineering Task ForceRelated: IETF specifications define core DNS protocols and extensions.

• Communication protocolBroader topic: DNS uses defined query and response formats to resolve human-readable names.

• Domain nameNarrower topic: It resolves domain names by following a distributed hierarchy of DNS servers.

• URLRelated: DNS commonly resolves a URL’s hostname before a browser connects to a server.

• Distributed denial-of-service attackRelated: DNS servers can be abused as reflectors, and DNS services themselves can be targets.

• User Datagram ProtocolRelated: DNS commonly uses UDP for compact queries and responses that fit in a single datagram.

• Reverse proxyRelated: DNS commonly directs a domain to the reverse proxy's public address.

• Simple Mail Transfer ProtocolRelated: SMTP uses DNS mail-exchanger records to find a domain’s receiving servers.

• Web developmentRelated: It helps a browser locate the server named in a website address.

• Proxy serverRelated: A proxy may resolve destination names itself or pass them to another resolver.

• WebsiteRelated: DNS helps a browser locate the server associated with a website's domain.

• History of the InternetRelated: DNS made growing Internet services addressable with names rather than numeric addresses.

• .xxxNarrower topic: The DNS provides the technical framework in which .xxx names resolve.

• .xyz (domain)Narrower topic: It resolves .xyz names into the records that direct internet traffic.