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DNS

abbr.
domain name system

DNS

abbreviation for
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (formerly in Britain)Department for National Savings
2. (Computer Science) computing domain name system
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Well, this works great for small websites, but larger websites are hosted on several computers and use a round robin DNS type resolution, so that multiple machines appear as one site.
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The Round Robin DNS distributed the connection loads and gave some measure of load balancing," commented Franklin Lerum, Manager for Distributed Systems at Egghead, Inc.
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The BSDI servers installed at BBN Planet's Cambridge, MA facility are linked to the Internet via high-bandwidth T3 connections and configured in parallel via round robin DNS to share the heavy Internet load.
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