No client directly uses DNS. In some ways, DNS is the precursorof contemporary directory services. From...

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No client directly uses DNS. In some ways, DNS is the precursorof contemporary directory services. From the very beginning, it wasnot practical to use IP addresses directly; address assignmentschange after time. Hosts files, which are tables with name tonumber matching, grew too large to manage as the size of theInternet increased. This caused DNS to gain in popularity. One ofthe advantages of DNS is its ability to scale, because it candistribute... No client directly uses DNS. In some ways, DNS is the precursorof contemporary directory services. From the very beginning, it wasnot practical to use IP addresses directly; address assignmentschange after time. Hosts files, which are tables with name tonumber matching, grew too large to manage as the size of theInternet increased. This caused DNS to gain in popularity. One ofthe advantages of DNS is its ability to scale, because it candistribute...