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What Is ECN

What Is ECN?

Difficulty: Advanced

Short for Explicit Congestion Notification, ECN is an optional feature that is used for enabling end-to-end notification of net...

What Is The Payload

What Is The Payload?

Difficulty: Advanced

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...

What Is NNTP

What Is NNTP?

Difficulty: Advanced

Short for the Network News Transfer Protocol, NNTP is a protocol used for transferring Usenet articles, news, and files from one serv...

What Is A Reverse DNS Lookup

What Is A Reverse DNS Lookup?

Difficulty: Advanced

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....

What Is DNS Hijacking

What Is DNS Hijacking?

Difficulty: Advanced

DNS hijacking, also known as DNS poisoning or DNS redirection is the hijacking of a DNS request. It occurs when a DNS request t...

What Is The SIP Protocol

What Is The SIP Protocol?

Difficulty: Advanced

Short for session initiation protocol, SIP is a signalling protocol used to initiate, maintain, and terminate real-time communi...

What Is ICMP

What Is ICMP?

Difficulty: Advanced

Short for Internet Control Message Protocol, ICMP is in the network layer of the OSI model and it is used to communicate errors...

What Is A Zone File

What Is A Zone File?

Difficulty: Advanced

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....

What Is DHCP

What Is DHCP?

Difficulty: Advanced

Short for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, DHCP is a network configuration protocol that automatically assigns an IP addres...

What Is BGP

What Is BGP?

Difficulty: Advanced

Short for Border Gateway Protocol, BGP is a protocol designed to make the internet function properly by enabling data routing a...

What Is A Routing Table

What Is A Routing Table?

Difficulty: Advanced

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...

What Is A Hop

What Is A Hop?

Difficulty: Advanced

In computing, a hop is known as a router or a gateway that is an intermediary device between two different remote hosts, nodes,...

What Is The RIP Protocol

What Is The RIP Protocol?

Difficulty: Advanced

Short for the routing information protocol, RIP is a protocol that makes use of the hop count as a routing metric and prevents ...

What Is The OSI Model

What Is The OSI Model?

Difficulty: Advanced

Short for Open Systems Interconnections model, the OSI model defines seven layers that devices use for communicating over a net...

What Is SNMP

What Is SNMP?

Difficulty: Advanced

Short for Simple Network Management Protocol, SNMP is a component of the Internet Protocol Suite used for monitoring, organisin...

What Is RSVP

What Is RSVP?

Difficulty: Advanced

Short for resource reservation protocol, RSVP is a transport layer protocol used for reserving network resources in order to ge...

What Is IPsec

What Is IPsec?

Difficulty: Advanced

Short for internet protocol security, IPsec is a network protocol suite used for enabling encrypted connections and secure comm...

What Is Network Address Translation

What Is Network Address Translation?

Difficulty: Advanced

Network address translation, often shortened to NAT, is a process that was developed by Cisco that translates the IP addresses....

What Is ISDN

What Is ISDN?

Difficulty: Advanced

Short for Integrated Services Digital Network, ISDN is a set of communication standards that transmit data, video, voice, and o...

What Is A Handshake

What Is A Handshake?

Difficulty: Advanced

In computing, a handshake refers to the process of a signal or a connection being established between two devices. In a similar...

What Is UDP

What Is UDP?

Difficulty: Advanced

Short for User Datagram Protocol, UDP is a communication protocol that is a very important part of the Internet Protocol Suite....

What Is WPA

What Is WPA?

Difficulty: Advanced

Short for Wi-Fi protected access, WPA is a security standard that was developed by the Wi-Fi Alliance, a non-profit organisatio....

What Is A Network Packet

What Is A Network Packet?

Difficulty: Advanced

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...

What Is The TCP/IP Protocol

What Is The TCP/IP Protocol?

Difficulty: Advanced

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...

What Are Nameservers

What Are Nameservers?

Difficulty: Advanced

Nameservers, also known as NS are types of DNS records that help connect the domain name with the IP address of the website. Th...

What Is DNS Cache

What Is DNS Cache?

Difficulty: Advanced

DNS cache temporarily stores previous DNS lookups on a computer in order to retrieve the IP addresses and translate domain name...

What Is DNS

What Is DNS?

Difficulty: Advanced

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...