What do I need to do to access my Web site as http://www.widgets-inc-10.com?
A. IIS services Web requests directed to a specific IP address. IIS doesnt acknowledge or recognize whatever name you use to access the system. Of course, it is easier for you to remember a name, such as widgets-inc-10.com, than an IP address. Domain Name System (DNS) is the mechanism that translates a friendly name to the less-friendly IP address for most of the Internet, as well as for most corporate networks. For you to access your Web site as http://www.widgets-inc-10.com/, DNS needs to point http://www.widgets-inc-10.com to the IP address of your Web server. Specifically, a DNS server or servers that are reachable by the client computer doing the browsing provides that name resolution. To understand how DNS works, let’s take apart the example URL, http://www.widgets-inc-10.com/ http:// is the protocol that is used for the URL, www is the host, widgets-inc-10 is the domain, and com is the top-level domain (TLD). DNS is set up in a hierarchical fashion, beginning with the TLD. Findi
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