If you copy the numerical address and paste it in your browser’s address field, you can still visit that site, assuming the site itself isn’t down. Sometimes DNS servers have glitches, but you can always access a website by using its numerical IP address. You might even want to do this if you’re having trouble accessing a website and need to do so in a hurry. Click the Lookup tab, enter a domain name, then click Lookup. In your /Applications/Utilities folder, there’s a tool called Network Utility.

You can find the numerical address for a website, if you want. When you click on a link, your browser sends a request to a Web server to load a page, but that request passes through a DNS server, which stores this information in huge databases containing every single domain recorded listed together with its numerical address. This is what lets your computer find, keeping track of the fact that this domain name corresponds to an IP address of 70.42.185.230, and that numerical address is hosting Macworld’s webpages. Please post web links to the modem so I can tell if it does NAT (Network Address Translation).Do you ever wonder how you can click a link on a webpage and quickly zip to another page on a server halfway around the world? Or send an email message to aunt Alice or uncle Bob, using just their simple email addresses? All this depends on DNS, or the Domain Name System. This all depend that the ISP mode/router does do NAT. This way you can plug the PC into the either that ISP modem/router and the Mac on wireless will be in the same subnet to share files and the dreaded NAT will go away Because only the ISP router is dishing out IPs. If this is so, log into that ISP router and make surer it is acting like a router, move to set four. A PC is NOT a switch so you network design is flawed!ī) ISP Router (that some ISPs are including in the modem they give customers). That is why people use routers at home because more and more devices needs IPs.Ģ. If the ISP modem/router is not a router then it will just dish out 1 IP.

No the Main router (the one that is closet to the modem) should be the one that does NAT.

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