Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia
Section 2 - Domain Naming

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Section 2 - Domain Naming

Section 2 - Domain Naming At the end of Section 1, we examined a simple Internet operation - a hypertext page transfer. Remember these key points?

Over the next few sections in this course, we'll be looking at each step of this procedure at a high level of detail.

In this section, we'll examine the DNS protocol, used in the second step to convert the hostname www.FreeSoft.org into 205.177.42.129, the 32-bit numeric address used by the TCP and IP protocols.


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Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia
Section 2 - Domain Naming