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What DNS Is Not
![[article image]](/system/assets/0000/1861/111609_CACMpg45_What_DNS_is_Not.large.jpg?1258565345&1258565342 "Author Paul Vixie")
Author Paul Vixie, noted by Wired magazine as "the godfather of DNS," has been solving DNS errors and mysteries for over 20 years.
Photograph by John Keatley
DNS is many things to many people — perhaps too many things to too many people.
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