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DNS

abbreviation

  1. Department for National Savings

  2. computing domain name system

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The Crown Prosecution Service said while the Court of Appeal accepted the new DNS testing, other grounds of appeal were rejected.

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It said this was due to "DNS issues" - the same route cause of the huge Amazon Web Services outage last week.

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A minor update to what is called the Domain Name System, or DNS—the kind of software tweak that happens millions of times a day on the internet—sent the well-oiled machine that underpins the modern web careening toward a crash.

DNS acts as a kind of telephone directory for the internet, instructing machines on how to find each other.

“But if you can’t reach it because the DNS is down, then all sorts of things are not working,” he said.

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