[DotNetDevelopment] Re: Sockets and Endpoints in .net 1.1

[Peter Smith]

Sure it can, with a call to Dns.Resolve. :) Yeah, that's the only way. Even
if you go and just put it manually in your hosts file, you still have to
invoke the DNS to resolve a symbolic name into an ip address. "www.cnn.com"
isn't an ip address, by any definition.