| Naming Computers II |
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| Computers
are named by IP address, |
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| four
numbers in the range 0-255 |
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| cse.washington.edu:
128.95.1.4 |
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| ischool.washington.edu: 128.208.100.150 |
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| * | Remembering IP addresses would be |
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| brutal for humans, so we use domains |
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| * | Computers find the IP address for a |
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| domain name from the Domain Name |
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| System
-- an IP address-book computer |
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| A computer
needs to know IP address of DNS server! |