What is an IP Address and Host Information?

Question

I need to know what does IP Address mean and what is a host information.

Answer 1

An IP address is the address of your computer or device. The IP address will consist of 4 octets of three numbers from 0 - 255. Think of it as the address of your home. It will have the country, state, city, street and street number and, if applicable your apartment number. This is so that anyone in the world can find your home.

HOST information is the name of the host for your network. This can usually be left blank on a home network or any arbitrary name can be used. Some internet providers require that you enter their host information into the router, such as YAHOO, but most do not.

Answer 2

IP-ADDRESS

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Every machine on the Internet­ has a unique identifying number, called an IP Address. A typical IP address looks like this:



* 216.27.61.137



To make it easier for us humans to remember, IP addresses are normally expressed in decimal format as a "dotted decimal number" like the one above. But computers communicate in binary form. Look at the same IP address in binary:



* 11011000.00011011.00111101.10001001



The four numbers in an IP address are called octets, because they each have eight positions when viewed in binary form. If you add all the positions together, you get 32, which is why IP addresses are considered 32-bit numbers



HOST NAME

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A host name is an alias assigned to identify a TCP/IP host or its interfaces. Host names are used in all TCP/IP environments. The following describes the attributes of a host name:



The host name does not have to match the NetBIOS computer name, and a host name can contain as many as 255 characters.



Multiple host names can be assigned to the same host.



Host names are easier to remember than IP addresses.



A user can specify host name instead of an IP address when using Windows Sockets applications, such as the Ping tool or Internet Explorer.



A host name should correspond to an IP address mapping that is stored either in the local Hosts file or in a database on a DNS server. TCP/IP for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 also use NetBIOS name resolution methods for host names.



The Hostname tool displays the computer name of your Windows–based computer, as configured from the Computer Name tab of the System item of Control Panel.

Answer 3

Without more context, I can only assume host information means the DNS HINFO record. The HINFO record specifies information about a specific host machine on a network. Things such as machine type and/or operating system.



An IP address is sometimes called a dotted quad - four groups of numbers, with periods in between, such as 192.168.1.50. It is a locally unique identifier that allows a machine to talk to others on a network.

Answer 4

An IP address is address of any computer on Internet or LAN(Local Area Network)

Usually its in the form xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

You can refer to this links as well

Answer 5

IP address or Internet Protocol is the address of the sender ISP host is the internet provider