Problem: Your Cousin Frank's small hardware business has grown quite a bit since your last visit. He has decided to change to change the name and become an independent franchise of another popular hardware store. Considered a mid-sized company, Frank moves to a larger location, purchases new equipment, and hires a number of new employees. He asks you to take over as his IT/ network director. You have begun to design the new client/server network and are pondering IP addressing and naming schemes.
Answer the following questions:
Q1. What role does an IP address and a domain name play on a network?
Q2. What are the advantages of using private IP addresses as opposed to public ones?
Q3. How do IP addresses and the DNS work together to enable network communication?
Response Guidelines
Read your peers' posts. Respond to two posts. In your response, consider the following:
- Was your solution the same as your peer's? How was it similar?
- How was your solution different from your peer's?
- In reviewing the differences in solutions, would you change your solution? How so? Explain.