CP102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Networking Hardware, Web 2.0, Mac Address
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Organizing your cheat sheet: some chapters have overlapping materal, group your info together by topic rather then by chapter. A network of networks, developed out of the wold war crisis by the us military. Now owned and maintained by companies and governments. Internet also includes: email, instant messaging, group communication, social networking, weblogs, video logs, wikis, podcasts, webcasts,. Uses common communication protocols, web 2. 0, internet 2. We buy service from an internet service provider (isp) Then connect to their system through a point presence (pop) Our isp acts as a client/server network (we connect as clients) Create packets or frame of information to send. From our isp, packets move through internet exchange. Type in a domain name into our browser. Our isp looks up the ip address of the website on their default domain name server (dns). If it"s not there then goes to a root dns (13. Icann in charge of domain names and ip addresses.
