DNS

abbreviation

1. Department for National Savings

2. computing domain name system

Example Sentences

It said this was due to "DNS issues" - the same route cause of the huge Amazon Web Services outage last week.

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A minor update to what is called the Domain Name System, or DNS—the kind of software tweak that happens millions of times a day on the internet—sent the well-oiled machine that underpins the modern web careening toward a crash.

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DNS acts as a kind of telephone directory for the internet, instructing machines on how to find each other.

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“But if you can’t reach it because the DNS is down, then all sorts of things are not working,” he said.

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It said in an update on its service status web page the issue "appears to be related to DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1".

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