计算机英语 教学课件 ppt 作者 杨芸 主编 杨 蕾 李连弟 副主编unit14.pptVIP

Unit Fourteen Network Applications Network Applications DNS----Domain Name System Programs rarely refer to hosts，mailboxes，and other resources by their binary network addresses. Instead of binary numbers，they use ASCII strings，such as tana@. Never- theless，the network itself only understands binary address，so some mechanism is required to convert the ASCII strings to network addresses. To follow，we will study how this mapping is accomplished in the Internet. Way back in the ARPANET，there was simply a file，hosts，txt，that listed all the hosts and their IP addresses. Every night，a