DNS is like have a Contact List. It's a service that saves all of your friends phone numbers to convenient names. So you can type in their name to find them instead of memorizing their phone number.
If you know your friends phone number you wouldn't need the contact list service.
That's how this works except the Contact List saves website names (like neopets.com) with IP Addresses (instead of phone numbers).
DNS is like have a Contact List. It's a service that saves all of your friends phone numbers to convenient names. So you can type in their name to find them instead of memorizing their phone number.
If you know your friends phone number you wouldn't need the contact list service.
That's how this works except the Contact List saves website names (like neopets.com) with IP Addresses (instead of phone numbers).
Excellent analogy
Thanks. I teach this stuff to young adults and have tons of them.
So the internet connectivity isn't taken out then? Just the servers?
That's what this prepares you for.
Disabling the entire copper infrastructure of a small country is nearly impossible let alone ours.
If they go down due to dns server then yes. Basically the network is still up but you can't connect through normal means without the IP address.