new DNS format

when i posted something on wiki yesterday, the representation of my ISP was wildly different from how it's always been up till now. it used to be a 4-part number consiting of 1 to 3 digit components (66.105.218.25). now it's got all these long numbers and letters in it like some sort of TIME stamp (ADX 2030 BF 214515).

has the entire structure of the interwebz somehow changed this week, or is this a wiki-specific issue?

 

Greetings, CatT...

Everything looks good here: ip-adress.com.

 

that looks like it. sorry for my "example" - i went back to the wiki page to grab the actual string, and it was back to the 4-part number!

so why did i see it at all, albeit briefly? is wiki in the process of changing over? i must say, the new format is a lot less user friendly!

altho...if they're running out of numbers, they're running out of numbers, i guess.

btw, does "DNS" properly refer only to the "names" (amazon, google, majorgeeks) grafted atop IP addys? i recall from my days on IRC a lot of ppl calling the IPv4 string itself their "DNS" -- hence my subject line.

is such usage incorrect?

 

DNS = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System

P.S. if you login to Wikipedia, then your changes will be logged under your user name, not an anonymous IP address.

 

yeah, i know what DNS *is*, but what i mean is when someone refers to "my DNS is 192.0.43.10", is that

A) flat-out wrong
B) typically nooby
C) sloppy but common
D) shorthand used even by technoscenti
E) correct in some manner escaping me

or what?

and yeah, i meant anonymous posts. i just don't understand why it posted as IPv6 initially. upon later visit it was back to IPv4, same as always.

 

Dns is a translator. Computers speak ip, ie 192.168.1.1 or so on, most humans can't easily recall strings of numbers like that, so dns is a service, that says, google.com = xx.xx.xx.xx, I would answer your question with it is wrong, and its possible a person is just getting confused. I would say your ip is 192.0.43.10, and your dns would be something like machinename.organization.com or on the internet more commonly. www.blah.com Yes i would say people calling the ip numbers dns, would be an incorrect statement.

 

ok, thx. but common in IRC, right?

or was i just picking up on (fellow) noobs?

 

IRC was mostly before my time