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Host

 

Any computer on a network that is a repository for services available to other

 

 

 

 

computers on the network. It is quite common to have one host machine provide several

 

 

 

 

services, such as WWW and USENET.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HTTP

 

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. The most common protocol used on the Internet. HTTP

 

 

 

 

is the primary protocol used for web sites and web browsers. It is also prone to certain

 

 

 

 

kinds of attacks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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IANA

 

Internet Assigned Number Authority acts as the clearing house to assign and coordinate

 

 

 

 

the use of numerous Internet protocol parameters such as Internet addresses, domain

 

 

 

 

names, protocol numbers, and more. Use a search engine to find the current IANA web

 

 

 

 

site.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ICMP

 

Internet Control Message Protocol is a message control and error-reporting protocol

 

 

 

 

between a host server and a gateway to the Internet ICMP uses Internet Protocol (IP)

 

 

 

 

datagrams, but the messages are processed by the TCP/IP software and are not directly

 

 

 

 

apparent to the application user.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Internet

 

(Upper case "I"). The vast collection of inter-connected networks that use TCP/IP

 

 

 

 

protocols evolved from the ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network)

 

 

 

 

of the late 1960's and early 1970's.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

internet

 

(Lower case "i"). Any time you connect two or more networks together, you have an

 

 

 

 

internet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intranet

 

A private network inside a company or organization that uses the same kinds of

 

 

 

 

software that you would find on the public Internet, but that is only for internal use.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IP

 

Internet Protocol. (Currently IP version 4 or IPv4). The underlying protocol for

 

 

 

 

routing packets on the Internet and other TCP/IP-based networks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IP Pool

 

Internet Protocol Pool refers to the collective group of IP addresses located in any

 

 

 

 

particular place (for example, LAN, WAN, Ethernet, etc.).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ISP

 

Internet Service Providers provide connections into the Internet for home users and

 

 

 

 

businesses. There are local, regional, national, and global ISPs. You can think of local

 

 

 

 

ISPs as the gatekeepers into the Internet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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