Re: What does "Resolving host" mean?

[Steve Hodge]

Howard M. Stark wrote:

> Having started this let me end it. The way resolving is used is a bit 
> unusual, "looking up" would be better usage and more accurate.  In any 
> case it is more user  friendly to use the vocabulary of the user rather 
> than the designer.
> 
> This is not worth more discussion.

Agreed, but one last thing. The use of resolve in this sense was not 
some arbitrary decision by some Mozilla engineer. RFC 1034 
(http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1034.txt) which defines the Domain Name 
system labels programs which query name servers as "resolvers". So while 
"looking up" might be better english it isn't as accurate from a 
technical point of view.

Regards,
Steve