In computer networking, a hostname (archaically nodename) is a label that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network and that is used to identify...

In computer networking, localhost is a hostname that refers to the current computer used to access it. The name localhost is reserved for loopback purposes...

computers use domain names as host identifiers, also called hostnames. The term hostname is also used for the leaf labels in the domain name system, usually...

http://www.example.com/index.html, which indicates a protocol (http), a hostname (www.example.com), and a file name (index.html). Uniform Resource Locators...

The computer file hosts is an operating system file that maps hostnames to IP addresses. It is a plain text file. Originally a file named HOSTS.TXT was...

that either a hostname or the literal term localhost follows, although this part may be omitted entirely, or may contain an empty hostname. The single slash...

(SDPS). To access each account, the username includes the hostname, as john@hostname or john+hostname. Google Apps uses the same method. In computing, local...

Security (TLS) computer networking protocol by which a client indicates which hostname it is attempting to connect to at the start of the handshaking process...

the functions getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() convert domain names, hostnames, and IP addresses between human-readable text representations and structured...

specification of data in the Domain Name System defining the location, i.e., the hostname and port number, of servers for specified services. It is defined in RFC...