Michael Havens <
bmike1@gmail.com> writes:
> Thanks Dennis. Hey..... I finally understand what ports are. Wikipedia told
> me. Am I correct in my understanding that tey are a connection between an
> ip address and a service?
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
<SNIP>
Yes, IP addresses identify hosts such as sdf.org (192.95.73.15) and on
sdf.org a web server is running and listening on port 80. When you type
http://sdf.org into Firefox it looks up the IP address and connects to
port 80, the default port for the HTTP protocol.
dennisk
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