A domain name system inquiry (DNS) apparatus and a domain name system inquiry method which are capable of obtaining a desired response at high speed even when there are a plurality of trees of domain name systems are provided. For this purpose, location information received by a current location information receiving device for receiving location information of the apparatus itself on a connected network is stored. Then, server information received by a server information receiving device for receiving server information about a DNS server to which an inquiry can be made is stored. Then, an inquiry request is transferred to at least one DNS server determined based on the location information and the server information, and based on a response therefor, the server information is rewritten, and a response result corresponding to the inquiry request is selected.

 
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