what is the difference between dhcp and dns
DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is what your router or ISP uses to assign an IP address to your computer. Without DHCP, you would have to manual assign an IP address to your computer. DNS (Domain Name Service) is a service that takes seb site names like yahoo.com and converts them to their IP addresses. A computer is unable to find a site by its name. It has to know what the IP address is. Kind of like a mailman can not deliver your mail based only on your name. He has to be able to match that name with your address.
