Summary of a conversation at work…
Me: “Okay, you know how in the real world every building has an address?”
PersonNotGettingDNS: “Yea”
Me: “Okay, the internet is like that, but on the internet you only need to know the name of a place to get to the address. So, DNS is like a cabbie. All you have to say is ‘Empire State Building’ and the Empire State Building could have moved to Brooklyn and the cabbie would still get you to the Empire State Building. And it doesn’t matter at all that it has a whole new address. So when we say ‘point the DNS…’ we mean we’re telling the cabbie the new address…Make sense?”
PersonNotGettingDNS: “But you can see the Empire State Building”