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Networking Fundamentals
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Networking Fundamentals

by Gordon Davies
December 2019
Beginner
510 pages
12h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
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Host

This is the hostname of the particular device. This could be anything within reason. It may be something that reflects the owner, for example, gordons_laptop; something that reflects the device's role, for example, www for a web server; or something totally random, for example, win789658221.

I have worked for some organizations that named their servers after characters or locations from movies or books. One company had all the domain controllers named after Star Wars and all the file servers named after Star Trek. Whatever the naming convention, the host element is always the leftmost part of the FQDN. The hostname is controlled by the organization themselves.

I previously mentioned that the host is the hostname of the particular device; ...

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