AI engineering glossary · Computing foundations
What is nameserver?
Nameserver (also called DNS server): A server that stores DNS records for a domain and answers queries about them. Resolvers ask a chain of nameservers, from the root down, to find the record for a name.
Nameserver: an example
A domain's registrar setting lists which nameservers are authoritative for its records.
Related terms
More Computing foundations terms
- Network address translation
- Network protocol
- NVMe
- Octal
- Open-source software
- Operating system
- OSI model
- Out of memory
Where you learn it
Nameserver is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.