Chapter 23. Managing DNS
Computers on a network need to be useful, which means you need to be able to identify each computer so that you can connect to and communicate with it. Most of today’s networks use the Internet Protocol (IP), so each computer on this network has a unique IP address to identify it.
An IP address is a very large 32-bit number, but there is a shortcut method of displaying that number called the dotted-quad address ...
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