Basic concepts
Host name: machine.sub-domain.domain
- example: mail.ubalt.edu
- same machine name in Windows in NetBIOS and TCP/IP, but the NetBIOS name is just \\machine
IP numbers are assigned to NICs
- a machine can have more than one NIC
- one NIC can have more than one IP number
- use IPCONFIG to see IP numbers in a machine
How to map host names to IP numbers?
- Host tables, DNS and WINS
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