Domain Name System
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... any of those machines just by naming it. This facility is possible
thanks to the world widest distributed database, the Domain Name
System, used to provide distributed applications various services,
the most notable one being translating names into IP addresses ...
... Rosenbaum, R., "Using the Domain Name System to Store Arbitrary String Attributes", RFC 1464exp, Digital Equipment Corporation, May 1993. ...
