Chapter 9. Integrating Domain Name System with AD DS
Without the Domain Name System (DNS), using the Internet would not be easy. You could still use the Internet, because the underlying technology for the Internet is really TCP/IP, but going to http://207.46.198.248 isn’t quite like going to http://technet.microsoft.com, especially when you have to type the address in your browser. When you look up a new technology such as Windows Server 2008 R2 in Windows Live Search and receive a collection of IP addresses hosting information as the result of your query, it doesn’t inspire confidence that these sites are safe to navigate to. IP addresses do not mean much to humans, whereas domain names do.
This is why users rely so much on DNS: it translates ...
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