*Ip does it need DNS to find a machine on the internet?
Stephane Bortzmeyer
bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Fri May 14 11:52:23 UTC 2004
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 10:35:55AM -0800,
711net <gerald at parsonshosting.com> wrote
a message of 15 lines which said:
> If I have an IP address but no domain name connected to it, would I
> be able to connect to my www server by using the IP.
Yes.
> But If someone from the WEB types in the IP it doesn't work. It
> maybe because my isp is blocking port 80.
May be. It is not a DNS question. I suggest to ask on another forum,
but do not forget to indicate the real IP address so that people could
try and tell you what's going on.
> What subject heading would that be under so I could do some reading.
"Routing"
> It seems to me that DNS is play time compared to What gos on when it
> comes to locating the computer that has the address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx,
Routing is difficult but the DNS is not simple. Each has its own
challenges.
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