Regards to all IETF members,
It is said that more steps a man
ascends the more he has to remember how many steps he
ascended.
Same is the case with me. I plan to
join as a fledgling software developer someday without
knowing the intricacies of the trade!
I posted the question below in the
Yahoo webrings and somebody had this mailing-list link
where I was told a better response might be tendered.
Am wondering how and where the
webaddress mappings taking place? Meaning if I type
www.xyz.com in a browser and (say) this xyz.com is
running on 212.34.54.89, then does my Internet Service
Provider lookup every place right from 0.0.0.0 to
255.255.255.255? And finally is that how my ISP gets a
match and says voila I got it and fetches the HTML
page on xyz.com?
Looking it from the hosting fella's side
(lets assume this host is the owner of 212.34.54.89),
supposing he has undertaken a contract to host
somebody's site. As soon as he starts the hosting does
he need to notify someone that hey please store this
into your database tables that this particular place
212.34.54.89 has www.xyz.com running on it? Is there a
centralized server out there which performs the
mammoth task of storing all the sites and the
addresses on which they are running?
There must be some such centralized
server, to which all ISPs connect to and refer, or
else my ISP has to start from 0.0.0.0 till
255.255.255.255, and secondly there might be the
possibility that xyz.com is running on two different
places say on 212.34.54.89 and 65.34.219.102 also, in
which case ISPs are going to raise their hands in
helplessness and cry to heaven I cant find the real
one!
Point is who owns this centralized server?
Also all these hosting fellas like Verio.com from whom
do they purchase these things 212.34.54.89?
NetWorkSolutions?
Sorry for wasting your time. And extremely
sorry for the bad English and the bad grammar.
weblogic
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