Articles that are marked as advanced are difficult for the average computer user to understand and contain highly complex terminology. Examples of advanced articles are ones about DNS and nameservers. Not many people know what these terms mean. These are suitable for experts. Articles marked as advanced have a difficulty level of 8, 9 or 10.
A Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a software communication protocol that can be used by a program in order to request a service from...
Stands for Open Network Computing Remote Procedure Call. ONC/RPC, also known as Sun RPC is a remote procedure call system that was originally developed by Sun Microsystems...
QUIC stands for Quick UDP Internet Connections and it is a transport-layer protocol that was designed by Google on 12th October 2012...
PTP stands for Precision Time Protocol and it is an application-layer protocol used to synchronise clocks across computer networks...
DNSSEC stands for Domain Name Security Extensions and it is a protocol that extends DNS by adding a layer of security to the DNS lookup...
Stands for Media Gateway Control Protocol, MGCP is a protocol used for signalling and call control communications in VoIP telecommunication...
Short for Neighbour Discovery Protocol, NDP is a protocol used to map an IP address to a fixed 48-bit MAC address in a LAN. It...
Short for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, LDAP is a protocol used for accessing directory information over the internet....
Short for Open Shortest Path First, OSPF is a routing protocol used to determine the shortest and most efficient path from one...
hort for Internet Group Management Protocol, IGMP is a network-layer protocol that is used to establish multicast group member...
The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), is a protocol used to map an IP address to a fixed MAC address in a LAN. ARP works by tr...
A DNS resolver is a server that handles requests and translates domain names to their corresponding IP addresses. For example...
The Bootstrap Protocol, often abbreviated to BOOTP is an IP protocol that is used to automatically provide a host with an IP ad...
Host priority is the prioritisation of different hosts. It is commonly used in DNS to specify where traffic would be directed if...
A broadcast address is a preassigned IP address that is used for sending messages to each host in a network without the need to...
Port forwarding, also known as port mapping enables computers over the internet to connect to a network that is outside of the...
Short for Datagram Congestion Control Protocol, DCCP is a transport-layer protocol that implements congestion control, feature...
Short for Network Time Protocol, NTP is an application-layer protocol used for the synchronisation of computer clocks between m...
Short for Stream Control Transmission Protocol, SCTP, also known as next-generation Transmission Control Protocol or TCPng, is...
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