This is from my lecture slides in the web based systems section of Distributed Systems:
Which of the following hostnames are valid?
122.65.132.11.1.97
My_server
300.320.1.32
The answer is: All three can be valid depending on the scheme used.
I would have thought the answer would be that none are valid; can someone explain why all three could be valid?
First: the ip address is the actual name of the host. Everything else is DNS entry that maps to the ip address.
122.65.132.11.1.97 is a valid IPv6 ip address.
My_server is a valid DNS entry (which presumably could map to a legit host).
Corrected: 300.320.1.32 is a not a valid IPV4 ip address.