In the times when Internet was not bigger than 1000 hosts, all the nodes in the network relied on the single file called HOSTS.TXT that was containing list of host names and their IPs.
Today, this type of IP address association can be seen very rarely. Network is relying on the text file that looks similar to the one shown in ...
The group of computers that belong to the same company/organisation and share the part of the IP address is called domain. It can be identified by the domain name, that is usually representing type of the company/organisation.
In networking term Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) is referring to a local host name together with its domain name.
Domain name consists of characters ...
