You must also configure your system according to how your ISP is setup. The remainder of this document will focus on setting up a UNIX system on the WPI residential network. This address will be displayed when you purchase your network connection. A DHCP client is provided by the Internet Software Consortium . Instead, addresses are discovered by network interaction.
BIND implements a hierarchical structure for retrieval of Internet addresses.
If some client computer in the world wants to find the address of any host at WPI, it references a root nameserver to look up the address of the nameserver for our campus, and then the client references our nameserver to resolve the address. Therefore, the root nameservers only list the domains on the network, not every address in each domain. For WPI.NET, the nameservers are 130.215.24.1 and 130.215.76.12 . We can change addresses in our domain without having to bother the root servers. This hierarchical structure gives us flexibility as well as reducing the work that has to be done at the root nameservers.