Igor was having problems understanding what a root nameserver did, so I gave him this explanation. I am proud of this.
freebsdgirl: think of them like a directory service at the mall.
freebsdgirl: you want to know if sephora has chanel no 5 perfume, so you go to the mall, look at the directory service to find out where sephora is, and then you walk to sephora and ask them directly if they have chanel no 5.
freebsdgirl: think of them like a directory service at the mall.
freebsdgirl: you want to know if sephora has chanel no 5 perfume, so you go to the mall, look at the directory service to find out where sephora is, and then you walk to sephora and ask them directly if they have chanel no 5.
That reminds me of an encounter with a non-technical co-worker:
He was having issues with an application running on a Terminal Server, so he declared "I've had enough of this, I'll reboot my computer.", upon which I asked him "If you're watching a guy on a CCTV and he's strangling himself, does it help to turn the screen off and back on again?"
Suddenly, he was enlightened (see URL).