This includes, of course, each and every computer that is connected to the Internet. The most important thing regarding IP addresses as far as the HelpDesk is concerned is that if a computer doesn't have the right IP address, none of its Internet applications will function properly. Computers at JMU are assigned their IP addresses automatically by the bootp table . IP Addresses are composed of four sets of numbers in the range of 0-255. Domains, domain names, and IP Addresses IP Addresses are the way computers find each other on the Internet.
Computers are good with numbers and poor with language.
This is why we use domain names to correspond to the IP addresses of computers on the internet. When the DNS server responds with the IP address, Netscape can easily find falcon and request the correct page. IP addresses are not granted randomly, as it might seem. If that were the case, domain name lookups over the whole Internet would take up most of the time people would want to spend browsing the Web. Instead, each domain on the Internet is given a specific range of IP addresses.