DNS – Domain Name System: DNS is the glue that makes the web
work. It translates a name (www.InterlinkSpokane.com) to an IP
address that tells which web server is hosting the website. It
also tells other email servers where to send email for a domain
name using what is called the MX record. Without DNS, when
someone types in www.InterlinkSpokane.com in a web browser,
there is no conversion of the name to an IP address and your web
browser will return an error. Even through your website may be
running fine, without DNS the web browser doesn’t know where to
go to get to the site. In the simplest terms, DNS let’s us use
names like Yahoo or Google instead of strings of numbers like
22.214.171.124 Think of it as telling the Internet to “call Bob”
instead of “dial 555-123-4567″ Website hosting provides server
storage space and an IP address for your website. The website on
that server can then be accessed from a web browser. Your web
hosting provider is who gives your website the IP address that
is entered into DNS