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TOPIC:IP ADDRESS

AUTHOR-Rameshwar Prasad Srivastava MS ( Cyber Law & Information Security) Indian Institute of Information Technology ,Allahabad

The address of a computer on the Internet is commonly referred to as the IP Address (Internet Protocol). It 's a 32 bit (4 bytes) number normally written as follows: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Since a byte can represent any number from zero to 255, the least and the maximum IP address possible are:
0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255

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There is no relation between an IP address and the FQDN. They are somewhat related as the name of a person, and his telephone number. A list of IP Addresses and their corresponding Domain names is kept in servers called the Domain name service Servers - DNS Server. A Domain name has four parts:

1) Computer Name, or the host machine name
2) Organization Name
3) Internet Top Level Domain
a. This give information regarding the nature of the organization. gov, com, edu, mil, net etc representing Government, commercial, educational, military, network provider organization respectively.
4) Countries name - usually the first two letters of the name of the country

A typical domain name appears as follows: adohare.svpnpa.gov.in indicating that the name of the host machine is adohare, on a network called svpnpa, which is a government organization in India.

Universal Resource Locator URL

Programs on the computer are identified uniquely by URL 's. An URL specifies exactly where on a system to go. It has six parts:-

1. Protocol/Information service : type http, ftp, NNTP.
2. Domain name of the server
3. Port address : for http default is Port No. 80
4. Directory address
5. File or object name
6. Internal anchor only for http resources

A typical URL appears as follows

http://www.svpnpa.gov.in:80/cp18-whoiswho.html#dds

Translated into a command it translates: Use the

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