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0 pointswellthisisgreat3y ago0 comments

> 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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samhuk3y ago

Network: 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.

ruune3y ago

This[0] blog post explains the basics of IPs, ports, etc. using that analogy

[0] http://www.steves-internet-guide.com/tcpip-ports-sockets/

sn93y ago

One 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.

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