The Importance of Network Addressing

This book details the implementation of Windows Server 2012 and assumes that the network will be based on Microsoft networking. Regardless of whether Microsoft, UNIX, Mac, or a different operating system provides the network backbone, network addressing is the key to intercomputer communication. Anything and everything about computer networking is based on locating and accessing resources stored on multiple systems so that users can collaborate and share information. This is possible with network addressing and, to make it simpler, name resolution.

With today’s infrastructure consisting of both local company-owned resources intertwining with cloud or Internet-based hosted applications, name resolution is key ...

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