25.1 Features and Benefits

Many MS Windows network administrators have never been exposed to basic TCP/IP networking as it is implemented in a UNIX/Linux operating system. Likewise, many UNIX and Linux administrators have not been exposed to the intricacies of MS Windows TCP/IP-based networking (and may have no desire to be either).

This chapter gives a short introduction to the basics of how a name can be resolved to its IP address for each operating system environment.