Domain name system
nounid
2363·updated May 9, 2026verified
A hierarchical database that is distributed across the Internet that allows names to be resolved into IP addresses (and vice versa) to locate services such as web and e-mail servers
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Classifications
Entity Type
Network95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Sensitivity
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Information Class
—85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Variants
- acronym
- DNSDNS exfiltration
- plural
- Domain name systems
- possessive
- Domain name system's
- pluralpossessive
- Domain name systems'
Framework definitions
- §1
- The domain name system (DNS) is the way that Internet domain names are located and translated into Internet Protocol addresses. A domain name is a meaningful and easy-to-remember "handle" for an Internet address.
- §1
- A hierarchical database that is distributed across the Internet that allows names to be resolved into IP addresses (and vice versa) to locate services such as web and e-mail servers
- §2 · sense_2_pending_review
- Tunneling over DNS to gain network access. Lower-level attack vector for simple to complex data transmission, slow but difficult to detect.
- §1 · legacy_primary
- A hierarchical database that is distributed across the Internet that allows names to be resolved into IP addresses (and vice versa) to locate services such as web and e-mail serversDR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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