John,
Thanks. I have some holes in my computer knowledge (as
demonstrated by this exchange). This is why I belong to this list to
learn how to how to fill those holes. I'm constantly am finding more
and more holes in my knowledge.
Steve
John DeCarlo wrote:
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Stephen Brownfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
John,
Thanks. That is why I typed out the URLs to make sure we were
talking about the same thing. Since Tom had referred to a numeric IP
address earlier, when made his comment I wondered if he was still
talking about a numeric IP address. This is the first time I've been
exposed to a numeric IP address.
Steve,
Just a quick note. IP addresses are numeric. That is all the network
actually uses.
Your computer takes a name like www.google.com and looks up the IP address.
It can't send any email or web traffic or anything else on the Internet
without that IP address.
A lot of the time, not being able to get to www.google.com is because that
particular computer is not getting the IP address. So if www.ggogle.com is
also 64.233.169.99, and you can get there with one but not the other, then
we have isolated the problem. In that case, the Internet and your access to
the Internet is working perfectly. All that is broken is looking up the IP.
Hope this helps.
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