IP addresses
The current 32 bit version of the internet protocol.
The DNS stands for ______ ______ _______.
What is the Domain Name System?
The protocol that defines the layout of an internet address.
What is the internet protocol?
A computer's memory
What is cache?
True or False: IPV6 can store more IP addresses than IPV4
FALSE [goes from 32 bits (IPV4) to 128 bits (IPV6)]
Data has a __ address as well as a ____ address.
What is a TO and FROM address?
Why are we switching from IPV4 to IPV6?
In order to scale for the exponentially growing number of devices on the internet.
Which step in DNS is cache used (two answers)
What are the first and last steps of DNS?
True or False: The internet was made scalable
TRUE
Every device on the internet has a unique _____ ______.
What is an internet address?
The first step of the DNS protocol, or the top level of the domain.
What is it to ask for the root server ( .com ... .org etc.)
What does the DNS do exactly?
It translates names to IP addresses, and vice versa.
Why does cache exist in relation to DNS?
In order to remember if you already accessed a website.
255 combinations
What are the last digits?
The subdomain of the DNS.
What does the WWW. mean from a URL?
What protocol do we study the most (hint: two words)?
The Internet Protocol (IP)
How does cache make internet navigation easier?
It stores the domain names in the DNS for later, simpler, use.
True or False: The first digits of an IP address describe the device
FALSE (the last digits)
The new 128 bit version of the internet protocol.
What is IPV6?
The last step of DNS
What is it to save the website in cache?
How many bits are there for the IPV6 version of the Internet Protocol?
There are 128 bits.
An open community of engineers, designers, vendors, and researchers, concerned with the evolution and smooth functioning of the internet.
What is the Internet Engineering Task Force?
What do the first digits of an IP Address denote?
The network of the device.