A name server is a computer application that implements a network service for providing responses to queries against a directory service. It translates...

A root name server is a name server for the root zone of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. It directly answers requests for records in the...

Server Name Indication (SNI) is an extension to the Transport Layer Security (TLS) computer networking protocol by which a client indicates which hostname...

may delegate authority over subdomains of their allocated name space to other name servers. This mechanism provides distributed and fault-tolerant service...

recursive name server (also called public DNS resolver) is a name server service that networked computers may use to query the Domain Name System (DNS)...

directory server or name server is a server which provides such a service. Each resource on the network is considered an object by the directory server. Information...

Server is both a Turkish origin masculine given name and surname. Notable people with the name include: Eric Server (born 1944), American television actor...

Name System (DNS). Its most prominent component, named (pronounced name-dee: /ˈneɪmdiː/, short for name daemon), performs both of the main DNS server...

network to a server on a different device. Typical servers are database servers, file servers, mail servers, print servers, web servers, game servers, and application...

servers. As documented in RFC 4367, some users and developers make false assumptions about DNS names, such as assuming that a company's common name plus...

Windows Server (formerly Windows NT Server) is a brand name for server-oriented releases of the Windows NT operating system (OS) that have been developed...

networking, upstream server refers to a server that provides service to another server. In other words, upstream server is a server that is located higher...

service where many websites reside on one web server connected to the Internet. The overall cost of server maintenance is spread over many customers. By...

such as default gateway, domain name, the name servers, and time servers. On receiving a DHCP request, the DHCP server may respond with specific information...

NetBIOS Name Service (NBNS), a name server and service for NetBIOS computer names. Effectively, WINS is to NetBIOS names what DNS is to domain names — a central...

The GEOnet Names Server (GNS), sometimes also referred to in official documentation as Geographic Names Data or geonames in domain and email addresses...

many independent implementations of Domain Name System (DNS) name server software. Each of these DNS servers is an independent implementation of the DNS...

networking, a proxy server is a server application that acts as an intermediary between a client requesting a resource and the server providing that resource...

and SMB servers, an LDAP server, and a domain name server, as well as server applications including a Web server, database, and calendar server. Starting...

hacking in which corrupt Domain Name System data is introduced into the DNS resolver's cache, causing the name server to return an incorrect result record...

In Internet computing, NSD (for "name server daemon") is an open-source Domain Name System (DNS) server. It was developed by NLnet Labs of Amsterdam in...

server computer. Domain names are formed by the rules and procedures of the Domain Name System (DNS). Any name registered in the DNS is a domain name...

Windows Server brand name. It was released on November 1, 2024. Microsoft announced that the sudo command feature would be available for Windows Server 2025;...

brand name. It was announced at Microsoft's Ignite event from March 2–4, 2021. It was released on August 18, 2021, almost 3 years after Windows Server 2019...

modern HTTP servers offer a configurable list of filenames that the server can use as an index. If a server is configured to support server-side scripting...

These alternative domain name systems operate their own root name servers and commonly administer their own specific name spaces consisting of custom...

Microsoft and the first server version to be released under the Windows Server brand name. It is part of the Windows NT family of operating systems and was...

The ARPA Host Name Server Protocol (NAMESERVER) is an obsolete network protocol used in translating a host name to an Internet address. IANA Transmission...

name server lookup) is a network administration command-line tool for querying the Domain Name System (DNS) to obtain the mapping between domain name...

Server 2019 is the twelfth major version of the Windows NT operating system produced by Microsoft to be released under the Windows Server brand name....