Name Resolution Using Hosts Files
As you learned earlier in this hour, a hosts file is a file containing a table that associates hostnames to IP addresses. Hostname resolution was developed before the more sophisticated DNS name resolution, and newer, more sophisticated name resolution methods make the hosts file a bit anachronistic in contemporary environments. However, this legacy hostname resolution technique is still a good starting point for a discussion of name resolution.
Configuring hostname resolution on a small network is usually simple. Operating systems that support TCP/IP recognize the hosts file and use it for name resolution with little or no intervention from the user. The details for configuring hostname resolution vary, depending ...
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