OCR GCSE Computer Science · J277
Paper 1
Revise: The Internet and CloudA Domain Name Service (DNS) connects these two forms of address by looking up a domain name and returning its corresponding IP address.
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GCSE Computer Science · key term
A human-readable name, such as example.org, used to identify a website rather than remembering its server's numeric IP address.
Used by OCR
Paper 1
Revise: The Internet and CloudA Domain Name Service (DNS) connects these two forms of address by looking up a domain name and returning its corresponding IP address.
For DNS, state that the domain name in the URL is looked up and the corresponding IP address is returned. DNS does not send the web page itself.
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