Posted by Zepachu on September 15, 2000 at 09:14:25:
In Reply to: (N/T) Is there a difference using the IP or carrionfield.com ? Or it's the same thing? Like speed, lag, etc...(N/T) posted by young player on September 15, 2000 at 09:03:43:
The Internet works like so... Every .com, .org, .whatever site is tied into what's called an IP address. An IP address is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. Every ISP (Internet Service Provider) that gives their customers access to the Internet has access to what are called DNS servers(Domain Name Service). There are different types of these servers, such as heiriarcal and flat text, but we don't need to get into that. These servers have huge lists of site names, such as carrionfields.org, and with it an associated IP address. If you provide an IP address for the site (any site, as a matter of fact), it may connect a few milliseconds quicker, simply because it does not have to go look it up. Once you're on the site, however, no matter how you get there the lag and everything is the same. The connection is made the same way, regardless of the method... Zepachu. > N/T (No text)