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DNS is crucial to a working internet. When you search on a browser for a website, like google.com or wikipedia.org, your internet service provider routes the request through a special server called a DNS resolver that asks the top-level domain servers, responsible for domain suffixes like .com or .org, for further directions. These top-level servers then point to lower-level servers that provide the appropriate IP addresses to your browser to get you where you're going. This whole process is called a DNS lookup, and it happens in a flash every time you try to connect to a website. To make lookups faster, DNS providers also store, or cache, IP addresses on servers nearer to users.

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