OCA Oracle Database 11g: Database Administration I: A Real-World Certification Guide

Using Oracle name resolution

The concept of name resolution is one of the cornerstone principles in networking. People use name resolution every day without realizing it. Anytime we type in the URL for a website, we're using a name that refers to a particular Internet resource—a web server for instance. When we type www.companylink.c om/login/index.html into a browser, that domain name actually resolves to the IP address of a web server. The path after the URL domain usually refers to a directory structure present on that web server. The HTML file itself is a document within those directories. So, rather than knowing the IP address, directory structure, and file structure of every site we visit, we only need to know a name that resolves that ...