DNS is the hierarchical way of associating domain names with IP addresses. It includes the network of databases and computers, together with the Application layer service. DNS is relying on multiple databases spread out across the globe, instead of using single file.
DNS can be divided to the components for effectiveness:
Resolvers are the clients that require domain name information. HTTP is ...
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 ...
DHCP lease can be either terminated by user or network administrator, or it may expire. Lease termination may be forced when the DHCP server is changed.
On Windows termination is done from Command Prompt by using “ipconfig /release” command. This command will erase all the IP, gateway, and subnet mask data from TCP/IP configuration file.
In order to request new IP data, ...
Private addresses are used for internal network of the company, organisation, or the household. Since they are used for internal network, private addresses can not be used for accessing the Internet. Public addresses, however, can and should be used by organisations for external connection to the Internet. The ranges of available internal IPs are shown in Table 1.
Table 1. IPs ...
Zeroconf (Zero Configuration) is the collection protocol used for link-local IP assignment and service discovery. Zeroconf is only used if DHCP is not available, since it is located on clients machine. When DHCP is available again, the Zeroconf releases its assigned IP and uses the one provided by DHCP server.
IPv4LL (IPv4 Link Local) protocol is used for address assignment when ...
