Re: WebAddress resolutions

2001-09-21 Thread Aronson, David
SS SSELESU' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: WebAddress resolutions This concept of "resolving" a domain name to an IP address is handled by something called Domain Name Service, or DNS for short. I am not too clear on it myself (I'm sure someone here will co

Re: WebAddress resolutions

2001-09-21 Thread Joel Jaeggli
try typing "how does dns work" google... It will get you a couple of reasonable summaries... try this one for a start: http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/webmonkey/geektalk/97/03/index4a.html On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, USELESS SSELESU wrote: > Regards to all IETF members, > >It is s

Re: WebAddress resolutions

2001-09-21 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <003901c142b2$63e04aa0$010a@Thor>, Thor Harald Johansen typed: >>If I'm not completely mistaken, this is good old fashion bull. It's a joke. correct - i guess i should have put a :-) for the clueless note that given most names are of the form foo.com and are issued by a small n

Re: WebAddress resolutions

2001-09-21 Thread Thor Harald Johansen
>>> Am wondering how and where the >>>webaddress mappings taking place? Meaning if I type >>>www.xyz.com in a browser and (say) this xyz.com is >>>running on 212.34.54.89, then does my Internet Service >>>Provider lookup every place right from 0.0.0.0 to >>>255.255.255.255? And final

Re: WebAddress resolutions

2001-09-21 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, USELESS SSELES U typed: >> Am wondering how and where the >>webaddress mappings taking place? Meaning if I type >>www.xyz.com in a browser and (say) this xyz.com is >>running on 212.34.54.89, then does my Internet Service >>Provider lookup every

WebAddress resolutions

2001-09-21 Thread USELESS SSELESU
Regards to all IETF members, It is said that more steps a man ascends the more he has to remember how many steps he ascended. Same is the case with me. I plan to join as a fledgling software developer someday without knowing the intricacies of the trade!