The DNS database contains individual records that are called Resource Records (RR). Indidvidual parts of the DNS database called zones are place on particular name servers. DNS is a worldwide distributed database, (Dostalek, Kabelova, 2006, 19). For instance, a user who type a website address such as www.google.com in a web browser, DNS server behind the scene will map the name to its IP address http://64.233. 167.147. pe ie e Connection Establish || 64.233.167.147 (www.google.com) Figure 1 Basic DNS translation (Source: DNS In Action) From Figure 1, the computer ping www.doogle.com. and was translated to IP address htto://64.233,167.147 by the name server (web server) with an established connection returned. It simply clarifies that at any point if the domain name server is not working, IP address can be used instead even though this is unusual in many cases. DNS is made up two (2) major components namely: * DNS Hierarchy * Name Service