difference between DNS and IP

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kaushal (Querist)

02 December 2008 difference between DNS and IP what is difference between these two???

As far i know i think them as same as both denotes name of computer in numerogical terms. but when i went through network connection both means different so wht is difference???

Rama Subramaniam

Rama Subramaniam (Expert)

14 December 2008
IP addresses are mechanisms for uniquely addressing resources on a network. They are used to ensure that the system and the network traffic understand specific components or hosts on a network. As soon as you connect to a network or the Internet, your computer has to be uniquely identified and one way of doing it is to assign it an IP address. This IP address may vary from session to session or may remain static depending on the network architecture and the connectivity process used. IP addresses can be understood to be like identification numbers on assets.

DNS denotes Domain Name Service or Domain Name Servers. They perform a very important job by translating the domain names into IP addresses where the resource (like a web site) can be found. For example, www.valiant-technologies.com will be translated by the DNS into something like 65.182.100.177. This service has been introduced to remove the burden of our having to remember a whole lot of numbers to get connected to web sites by translating those web site IP addresses into common language names.

In the network connection, what is shown as the IP address is the identification assigned to the host on which you are viewing it. The IP address you see under DNS denotes the IP address of the location where the DNS service is located.

IP address and DNS are not the same. The former is an identification of an asset on a network and later is a service provided to the network users.

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