ip address query

[Linux Tyro]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com>wrote:

On 31 October 2011 12:13, Linux Tyro <ubuntu.bkn1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For running a web server on my local machine, I would create the
> web-server
> > (with the ip given to me by my isp, is it like this....?), but in fact if
> > you will talk to that machine (i.e., to that web-server which was
> created on
> > the local machine), you would connect with an ip-address (of course), and
> > that ip address is the one given by my isp to me.....? My hosted website,
> > that is the created web-server on my local machine is in this case using
> the
> > ip address given to me by my isp...? And it is the same ip address from
> > which I surfing websites too..
>
> Yep - exactly.
>

Okay, Now I understand that one ip address I can have for both - (i) for
creating a wesbite (i.e. webserver) and (ii) for browsing the internet too.

And in this case, with one ip address, I can do all that.
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