Vocabulary
This is a group of computers and servers that are connected to each other.
What is the Internet?
Small chunks of information that have been carefully formed from larger chunks of information.
What are Packets?
This stores and translates domain names to IP addresses.
What is the DNS?
This is a type of computer that forwards data across a network.
What is a router?
A computer that awaits and responds to requests for data.
What is a server?
A number assigned to any item that is connected to the Internet.
What is an IP address?
To improve communication in playing battleship on the Internet Simulator your group invented a(n).
What is a protocol?
This is the amount of data moving across a network at a given point of time.
What is network traffic?
A computer that requests data stored on a server
Example: When you type an address into your browser, your computer is the client and it sends the request to the DNS server
What is a client?
Having multiple backups to ensure reliability during cases of high usage or failure.
What is Network Redundancy?
This protocol is used for transmitting web pages over the Internet.
What is HTTP?
How many unique IP addresses could be made in a fixed-length IP address system using 6 bits?
What is 64 users?
When a client doesn't receive a message over the internet, this is what it's called.
What is a dropped message?
This is occurring when you type a URL in your browser, your computer (the client) needs to “ask” the server that is storing the data and images for the web page to return its contents so your browser can display it.
What is a HTTP request?
This is the principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally by Internet Service Providers.
What is Net Neutrality?
This system translates domain names (like example.com) to IP addresses (like 93.184.216.34)
What is DNS?
This IP version uses 128-bit addresses (which is very large, approximately the number “34” followed by 37 zeros).
What is IPv6?
A company that provides subscribers with access to the Internet.
What is an Internet Service Provider?
In a HTTP request, this method submits some data for the server to accept or process.
What is a POST?
This group develops and promotes voluntary Internet standards and protocols, in particular the standards that comprise the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP).
What is the Internet Engineering Task Force?
This provides reliable, ordered, and error-checked delivery of a stream of packets on the internet. TCP is tightly linked with IP and usually seen as TCP/IP in writing.
What is TCP?
What IP version is 32-bits long?
What is IPv4?
A router monitors this so it can determine which routers will allow the packet to reach its destination the fastest.
What is the current network conditions?
In a HTTP Request, this method requests a specified web page or other data.
What is a GET request?