Principles of Information Systems (MindTap Course List)
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Chapter 7, Problem 4DQ
Program Plan Intro
IP Address:
- The full form of IP address is “Internet Protocol Address”. It is nothing but numbers assigned to each device that is connected to a
computer network which uses “Internet Protocol (IP)” for communication. - IP addresses are in human-readable (numeric format) notations.
- There are two types of Internet Protocol. They are:
- Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
- Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
Domain Names:
- The name given to the IP address is called as “domain name”. Every domain name is unique and they are text based address.
- URL contains:
- A protocol
- Web server name
- Domain name
- Location of the file
- Example: “http://www.mozilla.com”
- Here,
- http – HTTP protocol
- www – Web server name or host
- mozilla.com – domain name
- In “mozilla.com”: “.com” is considered as the top-level domain whereas “Mozilla” is considered as the second-level domain name.
- Here,
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