Edward Krack wrote: > Edward Krack: > >> It has to know where to go. Can you drive cross country >> without a road map? > > Users computer types in a URL to browse the net. > Users computer is config to use DNS server to resolve the > the name in the URL to an IP address. > TCP/IP uses ARP. > Host found. Session established. You are confusing ARP and DNS. ARP is *only* used to determine MAC addresses. MAC addresses are *only* used within a subnet. You even quoted... "Communicates between two computers on the same subnet as the host server." Don't mix 2 issues.