Short for Explicit Congestion Notification, ECN is an optional feature that is used for enabling end-to-end notification of net...
The payload refers to the data that is within a data packet and the only data that is received by the destination system. It is...
Short for the Network News Transfer Protocol, NNTP is a protocol used for transferring Usenet articles, news, and files from one serv...
As suggested in the name, a reverse DNS lookup, also known as an rDNS, is the opposite of a forwards lookup. It works by first....
DNS hijacking, also known as DNS poisoning or DNS redirection is the hijacking of a DNS request. It occurs when a DNS request t...
Short for session initiation protocol, SIP is a signalling protocol used to initiate, maintain, and terminate real-time communi...
Short for Internet Control Message Protocol, ICMP is in the network layer of the OSI model and it is used to communicate errors...
In DNS, a zone file, also known as a master file, is a text file that contains information about all the resources for a domain....
Short for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, DHCP is a network configuration protocol that automatically assigns an IP addres...
Short for Border Gateway Protocol, BGP is a protocol designed to make the internet function properly by enabling data routing a...
A routing table is a set of rules where routing information is stored and viewed in a table format that acts as a map, where th...
In computing, a hop is known as a router or a gateway that is an intermediary device between two different remote hosts, nodes,...
Short for the routing information protocol, RIP is a protocol that makes use of the hop count as a routing metric and prevents ...
Short for Open Systems Interconnections model, the OSI model defines seven layers that devices use for communicating over a net...
Short for Simple Network Management Protocol, SNMP is a component of the Internet Protocol Suite used for monitoring, organisin...
Short for resource reservation protocol, RSVP is a transport layer protocol used for reserving network resources in order to ge...
Short for internet protocol security, IPsec is a network protocol suite used for enabling encrypted connections and secure comm...
Network address translation, often shortened to NAT, is a process that was developed by Cisco that translates the IP addresses....
Short for Integrated Services Digital Network, ISDN is a set of communication standards that transmit data, video, voice, and o...
In computing, a handshake refers to the process of a signal or a connection being established between two devices. In a similar...
Short for User Datagram Protocol, UDP is a communication protocol that is a very important part of the Internet Protocol Suite....
Short for Wi-Fi protected access, WPA is a security standard that was developed by the Wi-Fi Alliance, a non-profit organisatio....
A network packet, also known as a datagram is a segment of data that is sent over a network, such as a LAN. All methods of data...
TCP is short for transmission control protocol and IP is short for internet protocol. TCP/IP is a term used to describe a set o...
Nameservers, also known as NS are types of DNS records that help connect the domain name with the IP address of the website. Th...
DNS cache temporarily stores previous DNS lookups on a computer in order to retrieve the IP addresses and translate domain name...
DNS is short for domain name system and it can also be known as the phonebook of the internet. The purpose of DNS is to transl...
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