A "host" is simply a network connected computer.
DNS is a method of looking up human friendly
"hostnames" to get the ip address so that
traffic can be directed to the right network.
ie. "bigbox" is a host, it is part of the
"bigco.com.au" network, its fully qualified
domain name is "bigbox.bigco.com.au".
For one computer (host) to send trafic
to another they initially rely on the
ip addresses (on a tcp/ip network).
So the sender looks up the recipients
ip address by querying the dns server.
An excellent couple of books on this and more are:
"TCP/IP Network administration"
by Craig Hunt - O'Reilly
"DNS and BIND"
by Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu - O'Reilly
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> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Jeremy
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> whats a host?
>
> whats dns? ( i know what it is )
>
> how are they different
>
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