ANS (DNS server)
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The Authoritative Name Server (ANS) is high-end commercial authority-only DNS
server
software product from Nominum, a company founded by Paul Mockapetris
, the inventor of the DNS. ANS was designed to meet the needs of top level domain servers.
Domain name system
The Domain Name System is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities...
server
Server (computing)
In the context of client-server architecture, a server is a computer program running to serve the requests of other programs, the "clients". Thus, the "server" performs some computational task on behalf of "clients"...
software product from Nominum, a company founded by Paul Mockapetris
Paul Mockapetris
Dr. Paul V. Mockapetris is the inventor of the Domain Name System.In 1983, he proposed a Domain Name System architecture in RFCs 882 and 883 while at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California....
, the inventor of the DNS. ANS was designed to meet the needs of top level domain servers.