Articles about the internet protocols which provide rules for transmitting data over a network.
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...
Short for Internet Protocol Version 6, IPv6, also known as IPng or IP Next Generation is the more recent and advanced version o...
Short for Internet Protocol Version 4, IPv4 is the most common type of IP address. It is the fourth version of an IP address th...
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...
Short for the Socket Secure protocol, SOCKS is a protocol used for transferring data between the source and the server through....
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 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, MIME extends the original SMTP and enables users to use text in character sets...
Short for Internet Message Access Protocol, IMAP is an alternative protocol to POP3. It is used for receiving mail and not send...
Short for Post Office Protocol, POP3 is a protocol used for receiving email messages. It is not used for sending messages. The...
Short for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, SMTP is a protocol used for transferring outgoing mail from one server to another. It...
The Internet Protocol, often abbreviated to IP is a set of rules that determine how electronic devices communicate with each to...
Short for Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, XMPP is a communication protocol used for instant messaging, near-real-ti...
Short for Secure Shell, SSH is the application layer of the TCP/IP protocol suite and a secure method of communicating with a s...
Telnet, short for Teletype Network and sometimes further abbreviated to TN, is the application layer of the TCP/IP protocol sui...
BitTorrent is a P2P file-sharing protocol that allows users to upload and download files. The files uploaded and downloaded cou...
A protocol is a set of rules that determine how electronic devices communicate with each other and transfer data. In a similar....
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...
Short for User Datagram Protocol, UDP is a communication protocol that is a very important part of the Internet Protocol Suite....
Short for Voice over Internet Protocol, VoIP is a technology used for the delivery of voice communications over the internet. I...
The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is a network communication protocol that is designed to send data packets over the inte...
Short for file transfer protocol, FTP, also known as RFC 959 is a communication protocol and internet standard that is used for...
Short for hypertext transfer protocol, HTTP is a protocol that is used for the transmission of information between web browsers...
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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