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DNS Caching
The Internet addressing protocol (IP) is numerical, so every time you
type in a textual URL, it has to be converted to its numerical equivalent.
This is done by sending a request to a DNS (dynamic name server), usually
a machine run by your ISP. It matches up the URL and returns the numerical
address from its database to your machine, which all takes time. The DNS
at your service provider can't possibly hold every URL's IP address, so
it's linked to a global network of DNSes. Thus the lookup can take even
longer. DNS caching stores the numerical IP address for your most
frequently-used URLs locally, in what is called a hosts file, thus saving
a call to a server.
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