Deep in its architecture are computers known as domain name system (DNS) servers.
网络架构的底层是一种叫做域名系统(domain name system,DNS)服务器的计算机系统。
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For this reason, this data is distributed across many DNS servers, which are authorities for different parts of the tree.
出于这个原因,这些数据分布在许多 DNS 服务器上,这些服务器是树的不同部分的权威。
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When you type something like " youtube.com" into your web browser, it goes and asks a DNS server – usually one provided by your ISP – to lookup the address.
A name server is a computer hardware or software server that implements a network service for providing responses to queries against a directory service. It translates an often humanly-meaningful, text-based identifier to a system-internal, often numeric identification or addressing component. This service is performed by the server in response to a service protocol request.