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Deithadi
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Post Number: 3725
Registered: 03-2004
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Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - 6:49 am:Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

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Aavakaaya
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Post Number: 801
Registered: 04-2004
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Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - 6:31 am:Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

Domain name is foo.com.

Host name is the name of the server that you are talking to e.g. Fred

If Fred lives in the domain foo.com, Fred's fully qualified domain name would be
Fred.foo.com

The www, ftp, pop, mail, abc, 123, BabyYouandMe that are prepended to domain names
are usually aliases that point to a specific machines (and ports but lets not clutter
the conversion). That way you can change the machine hosting that service easily
without upsetting the system.

e.g.

ftp.foo.com -> Fred
www.foo.com -> Wilma
pop.foo.com -> BamBam

And we decide to replace Wilma with Betty. The user still enters in www.foo.com but
instead of going to Wilma they would then go to Betty. User doesn't even know.
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Decent
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Post Number: 1831
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Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - 6:29 am:Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

hostname is the name of the server or in other words the node name or the server name in laymen terms.

domain name is your domain.

oracle.com, us.microsoft.int etc. everyone in that domain can access the server as long as the server is in that domain (DNS entry).
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Freshgraduate
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Post Number: 7
Registered: 05-2005
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Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - 6:17 am:Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP

Guys,
Please say what is the difference between domain name and host name.