Your ISP eventually will get told where that IP address is. And then it caches that for a number of days so that not only when you ask for a website, but when other computers that are also using your internet service provider ask, it can immediately tell them. The entire purpose of this is to sort of make it as fast as possible to access the websites that you're looking for and not have to go through this whole DNS system. It's all based on caching and all of this stuff. So anyway, this is a pretty elegant system. The DNS system is a hit and it's working pretty well and it's, most importantly, it's scaling.

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