At least when it’s working. If you don’t know what DNS (Dynamic Name System) is what makes the Internet work, or not in my case. When you type in something like www.yahoo.com, your computer doesn’t know what that means. It only deals in ones and zeros. So it goes out to the Internet and to an elaborate system of DNS servers. They translate it into numbers so that www.yahoo.com becomes 209.191.93.52, and then it knows where to go.
Setting up DNS can be a pain, and I’m going through some of that pain right now. Every change you make must replicate, which can take hours to days. Hopefully you’ll be reading this soon. If not, it may be a long afternoon.
