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Network features

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- Networking is a critical part of modern computing. Most Linux distributions are already capable of creating network connections automatically for you. On some rare occasions though, this process simply doesn't work right, or there may be a need to tweak the connection or debug a problem that's occurring. To begin, there are some common networking terms and definitions that we need to discuss. DNS is our first one. DNS is the Domain Name System. And DNS is a global network of servers that translates between host names and IP addresses. I like to think about this like the internet phone book. If you think about the old phone book, you could look up my name Jason Dion, and you'd get my phone number 555 dash 5555. Well, the internet works the same way. When you look up diontraining.com, you get an IP address back so that your computer knows where to go. DNS is what does that. Next we have DHCP, and DHCP is the Dynamic…

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