On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 09:52:55AM -0700, Ray Olszewski wrote:
Hi Ray,
I am Jacob here,
may I also learn a bit by asking you a few questions.
> First, let me make a small technical correction to what you said: IP
> addresses do NOT get assigned to machines. They get assigned to interfaces.
> Since there is usually one interface per machine, the imprecise usage is
> widespread, but yours is an example of where the distinction needs to be made.
I have a machine called narada.col7.metta.lk (IP 172.16.1.1)
which logs into my machine called dhamma.metta.lk (IP 204.143.107.46)
This would in fact mean that my ppp interface is 172.16.1.1
and on the ISP side the ppp interface is 204.143.107.46
When I have a DNS ( which is running on 172.16.1.1 , so we say )
that realy means that it is listening to ppp0 of 172.16.1.1
What now if I put in an eth0 card, can I also call the eth0 172.16.1.1
or should I give it the IP 172.16.1.2
if this is the case would the DNS IP
be 172.16.1.1 or 2 for the local lan ?
The whole thing is quite confusing
as we also have what we call hostnames
which are resolved into IP's
my hostname narada.col7.metta.lk resolves into 172.16.1.1
Please explain this to us a bit in detail.
and sorry to trouble you with this.
with best regards
Jacob (Mettavihari)
