IP addresses, Domain names and DNS
Did you know that all you ever need to connect to any computer in the world via the internet is its IP address? That's right if you have the IP address of any computer you can send an HTTP-request(or an FTP request) to that computer. Whether to respond to the request or not is completely up to that computer. An IP address is short for Internet Protocol address. There are two versions of IP addresses the 32-bit IPv4 and 128-bit IPv6. The internet currently uses the IPv4 address which is a combination of four numbers each can range from 0 to 255, for example, 139.59.79.235 However remembering these IP addresses to connect to every website is difficult. That is why 99% of websites have a Domain Name , which is normally used by you to connect to their website. These Domain Names are an alternative to IP addresses that are easy to remember. You need an IP address to get to any website(Server) on the internet . However, you almost never type in the IP address of an...