name server

A serverA computer with a dedicated purpose. Older familiar examples are print servers (a computer that controls local printing) and file servers (a computer used for storing files centrally). More modern examples are web servers (the computers that handle your web requests when you use your browser) or application servers (computers dedicated to handling the computing needs of a specific application). Servers are often powerful, expensive machines since they have to handle a heavy load. that’s part of the internet infrastructure. Its job is to take a website name (like “InsideTheIoT.com” and return the IP addressAn address used by the Internet Protocol (IP) to identify a machine on the network. for that website. That lets us use human-friendly names that then get turned into machine-friendly addresses.