How are host names translated to IP addresses?
Channel: internet-class
Date: 2016-09-23

Every time you use a host name in a URL, URI, email address, or any other way, it must be translated to an IP address. The packets exchange by computers on the internet are routed and addressedonly by IP addresses, not at all using the human-readable names created for our convenience.

Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).

Part of the https://www.internet-class.org online internet course. A blue Systems Research Group (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu) production.