Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
Name Resolution
Name resolution refers to the identification of a network-connected system by a friendly name as opposed to a network address. Connecting to a network resource by its actual network address is possible within certain constraints, but with today’s security and application features and functionality, connecting to a system by its name is not only ideal, it may be required. For example, in many common hosted implementations, a single network address may resolve to many different names and present different applications, websites, and services based each unique name.
Name resolution is the resolution of a network-connected resource by name and a matched IP address or a different name or alias name. This could be a short name such ...
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