[MaxMouse]

Reading my news RSS today and came across the .tel domain name release, ok... so i did a little digging.

Seems that in order to access a .tel you need neither the world-wide-web or a web-browser, because the information you recieve is actually from the DNS server itself and not a HTTP server or the like.

Well, if i type in my browser for example http://netnames.tel i get a contact page, if my idea of a .tel domain is correct, that information has come directly from a DNS server, no name resolving needed, no HTTP server accessed, but wouldn't my browser have been expecting an IP address? since traditionaly DNS servers chain themselves together to provide an IP address of a NAME you give (IE: the ip address of http://www.wikipedia.org for example).

My question is, how does a browser handle recieving HTML directly from a DNS server? or am i missing something.