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Can a machine with a single DNS name have multiple IP addresses If so give a possible example If not then explain why not?

Yes one DNS name can resolve to multiple IP addresses. This practice is called load balancing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_balancing_(computing)

and as an example a dig lookup on www.google.com shows that www.google.com at this particular moment can be resolved to the following three IPs:

209.85.229.104

209.85.229.147

209.85.229.99

There might be even more servers associated with this domain and these might have been cached by a DNS server somewhere ( these cached addresses are meant to last for about 5 mins ( dig output :) )). For a detailed explanation use wikipedia and look up the dig utility for Linux. The dig tutorial helps in understanding how DNS works in the background. (The dig output is pasted at the end)

The only way you can have more than one ip address on a computer is if you have more than one internet service. Even if you had 3 computers connected through a router wich your modem was hooked up to all 3 would have the same ip address unless you where to use a proxy on your computer to trick people into thinking you where somewhere else but most of these that you find that are simpilar are very easy to crack so if you're planning on trying to use them to hack/break the law then don't bother because you will get caught and you will get to sent to jail for several years if you are over the age of 16. Even if you are under 16 you're still most likely getting sent to jail they just might be a little more leniant (I bet I spelled that wrong.)

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IP has nothing to do with netbios. In fact, netbios is a layer 5 protocol and IP exists on layer 3 of the OSI model.

Also, networks are hierarchical. This means that no two interfaces can have the same address if they are on the same network.

DNS is there to translate your typed URL into a 32 digit binary number that the computer recognizes.

For example: www.mywebsite.com is translated into 110000000010101000010001010001110. This is what the computer reads as the IP address.

To understand the long IP address, use dotted octets. This is divided into four "octets" - 4 sets of 8-bit numbers. 11000000.10101000.01000101.00001110.

This is translated into: 11000000 = 192 10101000 = 168 01000101 = 69 00001110 - 14

So, the IP address of www.mywebsite.com is 192.168.69.14

dig www.google.com

; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2 <<>> www.google.com

;; global options: +cmd

;; Got answer:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 52869

;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:

;www.google.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:

www.google.com. 134900 IN CNAME www.l.google.com.

www.l.google.com. 298 IN A 209.85.229.104

www.l.google.com. 298 IN A 209.85.229.147

www.l.google.com. 298 IN A 209.85.229.99

;; Query time: 19 msec

;; SERVER: 192.168.1.254#53(192.168.1.254)

;; WHEN: Thu Apr 21 21:45:07 2011

;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 100

How do you use Vtunnel?

You go to vtunnel.com or https://vtunnel.com and it can help you get around blocks at schools or work as long as it is not blocked. All you do is simply go to the website and go to the bar on top where it says http://www.gmail.com and change it to the website of your coice and select begin browsing. If vtunnel is blocked then simply go to freeproxies.org and scroll down until you see a list of proxies wich you can try. The s on the end of http makes it load a secure version of the website that is harder for the schools/ company to block and is usefull once they block vtunnel.

Write a note on ATM layer performance measurement?

ATM LAYER PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT

ATM Layer Performance:- It is known as information transfer performance and refers to performance related to cell transport service provided by network. The two key issues of ATM layer are:-

NP (Network performance)

Quality of Service (QOS)

1. Network Performance:- It is used to manage the network and include parameters that are meaningful to network providers for system design configuration, operation and maintenance.

Network performance is measure by network at various points while QOS is measure at end point. During continuation of service, these parameters can be calculating without affected users traffic. This require the NP procedure to be activated and de-activated. The calling end-point (A) generate an activation or de-activation request towards another end point (B) with request for action on either A to B, B to A or both direction. The requirement is generated with help of ATM OAM cell.

I. ATM OAM Cell, Activation, de-activation function specific fields:-

II.

Message ID

000001 à Activation request

000010 à Activation confirmed

000011 à Activation request denied

000101 à Deactivation request

000110 à Deactivation confirmed

000111 à Deactivation request denied

If other point B respond to all of request then activation or deactivation confirmed message is returned otherwise activation deactivation confirmed message, request denied message is confirmed.

2 Direction of action:

It has two value that is from activator(10) or towards activator(01).

3 Correlation tag:

It has same value for all packets.

4 PM block size A-B:

It is identifier performance measurement block which can supported from A to B by a bit mask of 1024 bytes, 512, 256, 00 128 bytes. From most significant bit to least significant bit respectively.

5 PM block size B-A:

It identifies the performance measurement block which can be supported from B to A by a bit mask of 1024, 512, 256, 128 bytes from most significant bit to least significant bit respectively.

Quality of Service (QOS):- QOS is end users view about working of network and includes parameters that can be directly observe and measure by user and are described in network independent terms.

QOS is defined in terms of following cell transfer outcomes:-

Successful cell transfer outcome:- the cell is received corresponding to transmitted cell within a specified time. The binary content of received cell confirm exactly to corresponding cell payload and the cell is received with valid header field.

Errored cell outcome:- the cell is received within specified time but binary content of received cell payload differs from that of corresponding transmitted cell.

Cost cell outcome:- no cell is received corresponding to transmitted cell within specified time.

Misinserted cell outcome:- a received cell for which there is no transmitted cell.

Severely error cell block outcome:- when N or more cell outcome or errored cell outcome are reserved in a received cell block of N-cells transmitted consecutively on a given connection.

Parameters for measuring information transfer performance:-

Cell delay variation.

Cell error ratio.

Cell Loss Ratio

Cell Misinsertion Ratio

Cell transfer delay

Cell error ratio: is the ratio of PDU's received at an end point which contains an invalid CRC in relation to total no. of cells properly transmitted associated with given traffic load.

Signal metrics:

1. CAC rejection or denial time: The amount of time required fo0r CAC to determine that cell must be rejected, it is measured in seconds.

Connection establishment time:- The amount of time between first setup message from calling party and connect message to it. It is also measured in seconds.

Connection teardown time:- The amount of time between the release message being sent and release complete message being received. It is also measured in seconds.

What is the cost effectiveness of a lan network?

The LAN network (Local Area Network) offers the user, higher productivity and cost effectiveness with the easy access and resources. It is cost effective as it reduces the installation wiring cost.

If a host had an ip address of 123.123.2.5 and the internet gateway had a private address of 123.123.2.1 what would the route add command look like to create the default gateway on the host?

OS 125.587.4.3

Linux: route add default gw 123.123.2.1

Windows: route ADD 0.0.0.0 MASK 0.0.0.0 123.123.2.1 Specifications Have Double of The Address And It Depends On If It Is A Private Or Public Addres From linksys

Why should user create their own password?

If you want to protect your data you have to choose your own password.

What is the purpose of s-box in DES?

The S-boxes are the nonlinear part of DES that makes it difficult to break the algorithm and secure against linear and differential cryptanalysis. the s-boxes provide the "confusion" of data and key values, whilst the permutation P then spreads this as widely as possible, so each S-box output affects as many S-box inputs in the next round as possible, giving "diffusion".

There are 8 s-boxes also known as the substitution boxes, is a table that consist of four rows and 16 columns with 64 entries all together. They take in 6-bits and produce or output 4-bits. That is, the 48-bits into 8 S-boxes will be 6-bits each. However the 6-bits is represented in binary form of say, 010100. The two outer bits (the first and the last bit) represents the row (one of the four rows) and the inner four bits represent the columns (one of the 16 columns). The cell where the row and the column meets represents the value in decimal of the output. This is then converted to binary as the output. From the example 010100, the first and last digits 00 = the row which is the first row (00, 01, 10, 11) and the inner four digits 1010= the column. All 8 S-boxes will output 4-bits each in similar way and that is 32-bits output that is then permutated and further processed in the next round.

What is a port-server?

A port is a communications endpoint on a computer, referred to as a host. A port-server operates on a specific port number of a specific port for communication.

What is IPSec group?

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)'s IP Security Protocol (IPSec) working group is defining a set of specifications for cryptographically-based authentication, integrity, and confidentiality services at the IP datagram layer. IPSec is intended to be the future standard for secure communications on the Internet, but is already the de facto standard. The IPSec group's results comprise a basis for interoperably secured host-to-host pipes, encapsulated tunnels, and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), thus providing protection for client protocols residing above the IP layer.

Why OSI is called Open System?

Open Systems Interconnection (usually abbreviated to OSI) was an effort to standardize networking that was started in 1982 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), along with the ITU-T.

It is called Open System because it was intended to be used by all vendors. At that time most network vendors had proprietary protocols that were meant to work only with their software and hardware. This caused many vendors to support multiple types of hardware and software which was complicated, expensive and wasteful.

The OSI standard was meant to improve networking for everybody and was open in that it applied to everyone equally.

What is your personal career plan?

Personal Career plan is a system by which you write down your proposed life agenda. What you want to do in life(i.e Whom you want to be and the profession you like to embark on in future or present). To do this, you need to understand your life by doing SWOT Analysis of your self.

1. Strengths (What are the things you can do).

2. Weakness (What are the things you cannot do).

3. Opportunities (Job Openings for your proposed profession)

4. Treats (The barriers that are preventing you from getting there).

After you analyze also the points above you need to put them up in writing and and look at the ways and things you need to get done in order to achieve your aim. like Education, professional qualification and work experience.

GOOD LUCK IN YOUR LIFE PURSUIT!!!

For more information, check:

www.bedofsuccess.blogspot.com

How do you get BACK to see your netgear page so that you can undo what you accidentally did - I selected turn access control on and then lost wireless access to my own router page to undo that?

You might choose option do not allow edit settings through wireless. If you have the password you have a choices to connect to the router directly using a lan cable and change your settings. If it didn't work just reset the router settings which is the worst scenario but you don't have much of choice. Each router has a reset button, read the manual to find out how to reset your router.

What is a ping sweep?

ping sweep

---- simpley means that find on network that how many host(who are using internet) at that time means live on the internet.

Does a printer require a Network Card?

Some printers support network in order to share its resources. Usually such printers have a network card installed when it was assembled. If you printer have a network card you will be able to find RG-45 port. But the best way is to check the manual or manufacture website.

If you share your printer through your computer which is connected to network then you don't a network card because the printer uses that one which is inside of your PC.

What two types of businesses would benefit from registering as their own autonomous systems?

a global business with connections to multiple local ISPs

*a medium-sized nationwide business with Internet connectivity through different IS

Which particular layer of OSI model is not required if two devices communicate at the same network?

In this situation Network Layer may not be required. Data Link Layer can handle communication process.

If two devices are communicating from different networks then Network Layer a is must. In this situation Data Link Layer is not enough for completing the communication process as it lacks Routing ability which is the primary function of Network Layer.

What is span remote desktop connection?

Span Remote Desktop Connection appears to have just been released...its basically Remote Desktop updated to work on dual monitors. I have just come across this and had not seen it prior to now. The company I work for uses a mixed computing environment with standard pcs and Wyse Terminal Thin Clients. Its on the Wyse V90L XPe client that I found the standard remote desktop connection...but also found 2nd shortcut titled "Span Remote Desktop Connection". And using this client with dual monitors I as able to RDP to anything...and use dual monitors. Hope this helps...or at least points you in the right direction. RoweTech

What is ARCnet?

ARCNET (also CamelCased as ARCnet, an acronym from Attached Resource Computer NETwork) is a local area network (LAN) protocol, similar in purpose to Ethernet or Token Ring. ARCNET was the first widely available networking system for microcomputers and became popular in the 1980s for office automation tasks. It has since gained a following in the embedded systems market, where certain features of the protocol are especially useful.

Original ARCNET used RG-62/U coax cable of 93Ω impedance and either passive or active hubs in a star-wired bus topology, a layout eventually copied by modern twisted pair Ethernet LANs. At the time of its greatest popularity ARCNET enjoyed two major advantages over Ethernet. One was the star-wired bus; this was much easier to build and expand (and was more readily maintainable) than the clumsy linear bus Ethernet of the time. Another was cable distance - ARCNET coax cable runs could extend 2000 feet (610 m) between active hubs or between an active hub and an end node, while the RG-58 (50Ω) 'thin' Ethernet most widely used at that time was limited to a maximum run of 600 feet (183 m) from end to end. Of course, ARCNET required either an active or passive hub between nodes if there were more than two nodes in the network, while thin Ethernet allowed nodes to be spaced anywhere along the linear coax cable, but the ARCNET passive hubs were very inexpensive. Passive hubs limited the distance between node and active hub to 100 feet (30 m). More importantly, the "interconnected stars" cabling topology made it easy to add and remove nodes without taking the whole network down, and much easier to diagnose and isolate failures within a complex LAN.

To mediate access to the bus, ARCNET uses a token passing scheme, a bit different from that used by Token Ring. When peers are inactive, a single "token" message is passed around the network from machine to machine, and no peer is allowed to use the bus unless it has the token. If a particular peer wishes to send a message, it waits to receive the token, sends its message, and then passes the token on to the next station. Because ARCNET is implemented as a distributed star, the token cannot be passed machine to machine around a ring. Instead, each node is assigned an 8 bit address (usually via DIP switches), and when a new node joins the network a "reconfig" occurs, wherein each node learns the address of the node immediately above it. The token is then passed directly from one node to the next.

Historically, each approach had its advantages: ARCNET added a small delay on an inactive network as a sending station waited to receive the token, but Ethernet's performance degraded drastically if too many peers attempted to broadcast at the same time, due to the time required for the slower processors of the day to process and recover from collisions. ARCNET had slightly lower best-case performance (viewed by a single stream), but was much more predictable. ARCNET also has the advantage that it achieved its best aggregate performance under the highest loading, approaching asymptotically its maximum throughput. While the best case performance was less than Ethernet, the general case was equivalent and the worst case was dramatically better. An Ethernet network could collapse when too busy due to excessive collisions. An ARCNET would keep on going at normal (or even better) throughput. Throughput on a multi-node collision-based Ethernet was limited to between 40% and 60% of bandwidth usage (depending on source). Although 2.5 Mbit/s ARCNET could at one time outperform a 10 Mbit/s Ethernet in a busy office on slow processors, ARCNET ultimately gave way to Ethernet as improved processor speeds reduced the impact of collisions on overall throughput, and Ethernet costs dropped.

In the early 1980s ARCNET was much cheaper than Ethernet, in particular for PCs. For example in 1985 SMC sold ARCNET cards for around $300 whilst an Ungermann-Bass Ethernet card plus transceiver could cost $500.

Another significant difference is that ARCNET provides the sender with a concrete acknowledgment (or not) of successful delivery at the receiving end before the token passes on to the next node, permitting much faster fault recovery within the higher level protocols (rather than having to wait for a timeout on the expected replies). ARCnet also doesn't waste network time transmitting to a node not ready to receive the message, since an initial inquiry (done at hardware level) establishes that the recipient is able and ready to receive the larger message before it is sent across the bus.

One further advantage that ARCNET enjoyed over collision-based Ethernet is that it guarantees equitable access to the bus by everyone on the network. Although it might take a short time to get the token depending on the number of nodes and the size of the messages currently being sent about, you will always receive it within a predictable maximum time; thus it is deterministic. This made ARCNET an ideal real-time networking system, which explains its use in the embedded systems and process control markets. Token Ring has similar qualities, but is much more expensive to implement than ARCNET.

In spite of ARCNET's deterministic operation and historic suitability for real-time environments such as process control, the general availability of switched gigabit Ethernet and Quality of service capabilities in Ethernet switches has all but eliminated ARCNET today.

At first the system was deployed using RG-62/U coax cable (commonly used in IBM mainframe environments to connect 3270 terminals and controllers), but later added support for twisted-pair and fibre media. At ARCNET's lower speeds (2.5 Mbit/s), Cat-3 cable is good enough to run ARCNET. Some ARCNET twisted-pair products supported cable runs over 2000' on standard CAT-3 cable, far beyond anything Ethernet could do on any kind of copper cable. (Indeed, ARCNET has been demonstrated running successfully across coat hanger wire!)[citation needed]

In the early 90s, Thomas-Conrad Corporation developed a 100 Mbit/s topology called TCNS based on the ARCNET protocol, which also supported RG-62, twisted-pair, and fiber optic media. TCNS enjoyed some success until the availability of lower-cost 100 Mbit/s Ethernet put an end to the general deployment of ARCNET.

What is AppleTalk?

AppleTalk was developed by Apple, Inc. for computer networking. AppleTalk is a set of protocols included in the original version of Macintosh in 1984. Unlike other early LAN systems, AppleTalk was based on the OSI model of protocol layering and was not built on the archetypal Xerox XNS system, although several portions of the AppleTalk system have direct analogs in XNS.

AppleTalk contained two protocols, AppleTalk address resolution protocol (AARP) and name binding protocol (NBP) in order to make the system entirely self-configuring. Through AARP, AppleTalk hosts were able to automatically generate their own network addresses.

NBP mapped network addresses to user-readable names, essentially making it a dynamic Domain Name System (DNS). Routers, however, were able to provide all the information by overriding the default mechanisms. This was beneficial for larger networks, since "chattiness" could occur through AARP as new nodes searched for free addresses.

The two protocols also made AppleTalk the easiest to use among networking systems, making installation of new machines simple, requiring only that they be plugged in and optionally be given a name. A program called the Chooser listed down and classified the machines on a local network through a completely automated procedure.

On larger networks and wide area networks (WAN), the naming services provided by AARP and NBP caused a significant amount of unwanted traffic. This problem was addressed by the introduction of AppleTalk Phase 2.

An AppleTalk address consisted of four bytes: a two-byte network number (obtained from a router), a one-byte node number (chosen by each node), and a one-byte socket number. Names for services were chosen by humans so that they would easily be recognizable by users. They were long enough in order to minimize the chance of conflicts.

Though AppleTalk was originally intended to be part of a project known as Macintosh Office consisting of a host machine that enabled routing, printer sharing and file sharing, development of the Macintosh Office project was halted in 1986. In place of Macintosh Office, the AppleShare File and Print Server was released.

TCP/IP was the default networking model for the Mac; however, AppleTalk is backwards compatible with several products. For TCP/IP-based networks, an Apple implementation called Bonjour provided discovery and configuration services not unlike that of AppleTalk.

What is the practical use of baseband coaxial cable?

Iam pretty sure that baseband coax was 50 ohm and was used for networking computer, were broadband coax is 75 ohm and used in the cable tv industry.

If bus clock rate is 250MHz what is duration of each bus cycle?

Cva:As bus cycle is not mentioned, hence assumed that bus cycle = clock rate = 250MHz.Duration of each bus cycle = 1 / 250M = 4ns;

Please, correct me if I am wrong.

What is the dns server for netgear?

If you are referring to the individual routers that netgear makes, then the dns will be whatever ip address is set as the main ip address for the individual router, generally 192.168.0.1, the netgear default.

If you are looking for the dns servers that netgear uses to direct you to their website, why on earth would you need to know let alone want to know that?!?

The reason you would need to know this is so you can set up a static ip, or port forwarding. so dont listen to the ignorant person above. You can obtain this by going to your routers web interface page, or calling your isp and asking for your dns, which they can tell you right away. if they ask you why, tell them you want to set up a static ip, and dont buy whatever they try to sell you after that, you dont need it.

What is the bandwidth of a signal composed of frequencies from 50 Hz to 500 Hz?

The bandwidth of a signal is the width of frequencies between the highest and the lowest frequency.

So 500Hz - 50Hz = 450Hz bandwidth.

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