When the DNS resolver gets a PTR ( reverse-lookup ) request, it begins by querying the root servers ( which point to The American Registry For Internet Numbers ' ( ARIN's ) servers for the < tt > 208. in-addr. arpa </ tt > zone ).

When data is replicated between database servers, so that the information remains consistent throughout the database system and users cannot tell or even know which server in the DBMS they are using, the system is said to exhibit replication transparency.

When other DHCP servers receive this message, they withdraw any offers that they might have made to the client and return the offered address to the pool of available addresses.

When LDAP servers are in a replicated topology, LDAP clients should consider using the post-read control to verify updates instead of a search after an update.

When PNG development started in early 1995, developers decided not to incorporate support for animation, because the majority of the PNG developers felt that overloading a single file type with both still and animation features is a bad design, both for users ( who have no simple way of determining to which class a given image file belongs ) and for web servers ( which should use the image / foo MIME type for stills and video / foo for animations -- GIF notwithstanding ).

When a domain is registered with a domain name registrar, the zone administrator provides a list of name servers ( typically at least two, for redundancy ) that are authoritative for the zone that contains the domain.

When online it will attempt to connect to mail servers ( to check for new mail at regular intervals, for example ), and when offline it will not attempt to make any such connection.

* Priority activation: When the number of available servers drops below a certain number, or load gets too high, standby servers can be brought online

When a remote client ( typically another mail server ) does an MX lookup for the domain name, it gets a list of servers and their preference numbers.

When 1U rackmount servers started becoming popular, these form factor Registered DIMMs had to plug into angled DIMM sockets to fit in the 1. 75 " high box.

When it was released, qmail was significantly faster than Sendmail, particularly for bulk mail tasks such as mailing list servers.

When Stephenson retired shortly after IBM completed its acquisition of Sequent, responsibility for servers fell on Samuel J. Palmisano.

When WinMX tries to find the Frontcode peer caches ( central servers essential for the operation of WinMX ), it is instead directed to look up one of the new peer caches set up by the WinMX communities.

When IBM announced the new Power Systems line of servers on April 2, 2008, they renamed the operating system from i5 / OS to IBM i and changed the version identifier format from VxRxMx ( Version, Release, Modification, e. g. V6R1M0 ) to the more standard format ( e. g. 6. 1 ).

When open NNTP servers eventually became scarce, open proxies were used.

When compared to sending messages normally, this reduces IRC network load, allows sending of larger amounts of text at once, due to the lack of flood control, and makes the communication more secure by not exposing the message to the IRC servers ( however, the message is still in plaintext ).

When Jughead uses all of the available memory, it becomes unacceptably slow, limiting the size of the servers it can index.

When a user authorizes a new computer, iTunes sends a unique machine identifier to Apple ’ s servers.

When a user deauthorizes a computer, iTunes will instruct Apple ’ s servers to remove the unique machine identifier from their database, and at the same time it will remove all the user keys from its encrypted key repository.

When a client first booted up it broadcast a request on the subnet asking for servers, which would respond with suggested addresses.

When the priest genuflects and says the triple " Domine, non sum dignus ..." servers ring the bell thrice.

In addition to using Akamai's own servers, Akamai delivers content from other end-users ' computers, in a form of peer-to-peer networking When users request a download of some large files served by this system, they are prompted to download and install " Akamai NetSession Interface, a download manager used to reduce download time and increase quality.

When observed from farther away, the image of the rows of pixels still merge, but the total image becomes smaller as the distance increases.

When the outer and inner event horizons merge, they shrink toward the rotating singularity and eventually expose it to the rest of the universe.

When melded together, the two European Festival Cycles merge to form eight festivals in modern renderings.

When the Great Depression hit, Warner asked for and got permission to merge the two studios.

When the supernova remnant slows to the speed of the random velocities in the surrounding medium, after roughly 30, 000 years, it will merge into the general turbulent flow, contributing its remaining kinetic energy to the turbulence.

When they arrived, they were told that they would be discussing the merge between the two tribes, which would happen the next day, where they would decide on a new name and paint a new flag.

When thunderstorms merge, which is most likely when numerous thunderstorms exist in proximity to each other, the motion of the stronger thunderstorm normally dictates future motion of the merged cell.

When there are 8 to 12 players left in the game, the separate tribes merge into a single tribe.

* When players are forced out of the game due to injury, or completely leave the game on their own terms outside of Tribal Council, Tribal Council is usually not held, with the other tribe ( s ) being informed of the player's departure if still before the merge.

When the city school board decided to merge with the Hopkins County School System, the school and community were split into two.

When the Orange Lake school system voted to merge with the Newburgh Enlarged City School District in 1963, the schoolhouse was closed and sold.

When the " house of parliament " was convened in 1922 it was treated by those in attendance as the Third Dáil, and its first act was to merge the Provisional Government and the Ministry of the Dáil into a single cabinet.

When the southern end of the current M11 was finally constructed, space was provided between the two carriageways to enable the M12 carriageways to merge with it and the M15 and junctions 1, 2 and 3 were reserved for the additional inner London section.

When heated in the correct conditions, these chains bond side-to-side ( ladder polymers ), forming narrow graphene sheets which eventually merge to form a single, columnar filament.

When the two finally collide, the neutron star and red giant core will merge.

When Strike Wing disbanded with the retirement of the Skyhawks, a new name had to be found for the supervisory wing, as Strike Wing at Ohakea needed to merge with the Operations Wing in Auckland.

When only ten players remained, the usual time for a merge, the two tribes moved onto one beach, with a feast awaiting them.

When Sun Quan succeeded Sun Ce, he planned to merge smaller troops into larger garrisons.

When the league owners met to vote on moving to the fall, Taubman sent his son with a message for the commissioner -- if the teams voted to move to the fall, the Panthers would merge with the Invaders, with the Invaders as the surviving team.

When the merge is complete, current MBNA Canada Bank credit card holders can expect their accounts to remain essentially identical to what they are currently.

When Reid retired from the party leadership in 1908, Cook agreed to merge the Anti-Socialist Party ( the Free Trade Party was renamed prior to the 1906 federal election ) with Alfred Deakin's Protectionists, and became deputy leader of the new Commonwealth Liberal Party.

When completed the GCRN will merge with the GCR to create a single 18-mile route which will also be rebuilt as a double track line for most, if not the whole length.

When his local church began to merge its sermons with patriotic and pro-war sentiments, he felt this was a betrayal of his spiritual principles and left it permanently.

When two bubbles merge, they adopt a shape which makes the sum of their surface areas as small as possible, compatible with the volume of air each bubble encloses.