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> Then, when I was interning as a software developer a fair while ago, a colleague drew the analogy of "IP address" = house on street, "port" = something you as
by wellthisisgreat 4y ago
> Then, when I was interning as a software developer a fair while ago, a colleague drew the analogy of "IP address" = house on street, "port" = something you ask for when you knock on the door of a house.
Hey thanks for sharing! Can you maybe expand on this in any form? I'd love to get that kind of analogy. Maybe you have a blog post about it? That'd be amazing!
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- ruune 4y agoThis[0] blog post explains the basics of IPs, ports, etc. using that analogy [0] http://www.steves-internet-guide.com/tcpip-ports-sockets/ http://www.steves-internet-guide.com/tcpip-ports-sockets/
- samhuk 4y agoNetwork: Street IP address: House Port: What kind of thing from inside the house you want Gateway: House #1, start of street. DNS: Tells you which house number corresponds to a family name. "Oh why yes, 'samhuk' lives at house # xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx The analogy goes on and on. It's how I have always thought about networks since.
- sn9 4y agoOne of the canonical computer networking texts, Kurose and Ross's Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, is chock-full of these sorts of analogies and metaphors. It's very readable.