FIT 100
© Copyright University of
Washington 1999-2000
How Are Computers Named Physically
vThe physical
way to name computers is using an Internet protocol address, or IP
address
;boris.cs.washington.edu’s IP
address is: 128.95.2.227
;cs.washington.edu’s
IP address: 128.95.1.4
;washington.edu’s
IP address: 140.142.15.163
vThe domain name
system (DNS) associates human readable names with the physical IP
addresses for use by the computers and routers of the Internet