Like food, you should not take DNS servers from a stranger. For example, they might send you to a scam copy of a website. Malicious DNS servers can do what any malicious translator can do - lie to you. Probably 99% of all communication between two computers on the Internet, starts with a call to a DNS Server to translate a computer name into an IP address. The system that translates names into the underlying numeric IP addresses is called DNS (Domain Name System) and the computers that do the translation are referred to as DNS servers.ĭNS Servers are extremely important. All communication on the Internet is based on these unique numbers, website names and computer names are just a convenience. You know this site as and its IP address is 216.92.136.14. Short Introduction to DNS (switch to a Long DNS explanation)ĭevices connected to the Internet are assigned unique numbers called IP addresses.
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