Development of the Domain Name System

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Year: 1988  ·  Venue: ACM SIGCOMM  ·  Authors: Paul Mockapetris, Kevin Dunlap

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Abstract

Replaced a single HOSTS.TXT file with a delegated, hierarchical, cached distributed database. Still resolving your queries today.

My Notes

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