Comment on How does data sent over the internet know where to go?
DerArzt@lemmy.world 10 months agoTo expand on this: every website that you go to online (i.e. www.google.com) is backed by an IP address.
Comment on How does data sent over the internet know where to go?
DerArzt@lemmy.world 10 months agoTo expand on this: every website that you go to online (i.e. www.google.com) is backed by an IP address.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
And the Domain Name (Google.com) get’s converted from words we understand to the IP address. This is the Domain Name System, or DNS. Everyone on the network agrees that Google.com equals 142.250.189.174. If that address changes, the change gets passed through the system until everyone agrees on the new IP address. DNS is how your computer learns the address.