Network Protocols List

1 What is a Domain Name

http://whatismyipaddress.com/domain-name

What is a "Domain Name"? New computer users often confuse domain names with universal resource locators, or URLs, and Internet Protocol, or IP, addresses. This confusion is understandable. It is worth learning the differences between them because these terms are ubiquitous. It is also helpful to be able to use terms correctly when communicating to technicians or other people within a professional organization. This naming convention is analogous to a physical address system.

2 Introduction to TCP/IP Primer

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/%7eskaggs/TCPIP_DE.htm

A basic overview and history of the TCP/IP protocols as they fit in the OSI Network Model.

3 HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/

The definitive standards body for defining HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 which are now stable specifications, so the W3C has closed the HTTP activity since it has achieved its goals of creating a successful standard that addresses the weaknesses of earlier HTTP versions.

4 SNMP

http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/LAN/ClassNotes/snmp

SNMP Network Management history and information of the TCP/IP protocol suite.

5 DHCP

http://www.networking.ouhsc.edu/DHCP.htm

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol summary and how to automate IP address assignment and administration dynamic NetBIOS Names to client systems.

6 PPP Frequently Asked Questions

http://www.counterpane.com/pptp-faq.html

Point to Point Tunneling Protocol Implementation FAQs from commercial site.

7 File Transfer Protocol

http://www2.whispering.org:8080/infobook/computers/network/CIE/69.ht

The File Transfer Protocol is one of oldest Internet protocols still in widespread use and is implemented using the TCP Protocol.

8 Definition: FTP

http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/fs-1037/dir-017/_2405.htm

The File Transfer Protocol is part of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) protocol and is a standard high-level protocol for transferring files from one computer to another.

9 Usenet Information Center Launch Pad

http://www.ibiblio.org/usenet-i/

The definitive reference for Usenet and its newsgroups is the Usenet Information Center, which has help with Usenet an area to both browse and search all the Usenet Groups, Usenet FAQs, Usenet Indexes/Services and Usenet current events (DejaNews).

10 news FAQs By Newsgroup

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/by-newsgroup/news/

List of newsgroup faqs about news and usenet faqs from Faq.org.

11 Usenet References

http://www.faqs.org/usenet

Collection of FAQs and other introductory documents about Usenet.

12 IRCHelp.org

http://www.irchelp.org/

Thorough IRC help site with over a thousand helpful files including FAQs, primers, guides, downloadable clients and scripts, server lists, etc.

13 Chat Etiquette

http://www.minopher.net.au/WebEd/protocol.htm

Introduction to the chat environment on the World Wide Web has explanations of some common used chat acronyms, information on how to conduct conversations in chat rooms and on chats social protocols.

14 What is IRC

http://www.mirc.co.uk/irc.html

UK site talks about IRC as the nets equivalent of CB radio, but unlike CB, Internet Relay Chat lets people all over the world participate in real-time conversations, when logged into a chat session, you "converse" by typing messages that are instantly sent to other chat participants.

15 Internet Gurus Guide to Internet Relay Chat

http://net.gurus.com/irc/

Internet Gurus commercial sites introduction to IRCs client programs and server programs where the client is the program you run on your local machine (or perhaps on your providers system) that you type at directly and an IRC server resembles a large switchboard, receiving everything you type, sending your messages to other users, and whats more, all the different IRC servers are in constant contact with each other.

16 ICQ Help Page

http://www.icq.com/products/whatisicq.html

A commercial site explains basics of ICQ (I seek you) an Internet tool which informs users who else is on-line and enables contact via chat, email, or data conferencing.

17 RFC1459

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc1459.html

Internet Relay Chat RFC history document of the text-based IRC protocols.

18 Ozemail.com.au NetFinder

http://www.ozemail.com.au/~pli/netfinder/

Austrailian commercial site has NetFinder an FTP application for the Macintosh.

19 FTPd

http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/FByName.html

List of RPM page so scroll down to the FTP tool for Linux.

20 Ipswitch.com

http://www.ipswitch.com/

An FTP client software is WS_FTP for Windows from commercial site.

21 InterNIC Whois

http://www.internic.net/whois.html

Search with "Whois" command through InterNIC by domain, registrar or name of server.

22  What is an IP

http://whatismyipaddress.com

What is an IP address? Every device connected to the public Internet is assigned a unique number known as an Internet Protocol (IP) address. Since these numbers are usually assigned to internet service providers within region-based blocks, an IP address can often be used to identify the region or country from which a computer is connecting to the Internet. An IP address ca

23 What is Hosting

http://whatismyipaddress.com/hosting

The web is a collection of networked computers. The computers where this information and media are stored and where requests for access are processed are known as servers, and the companies that operate these servers are called Web hosts. Making a website available requires a server which stores all of the information required for a particular website, and it handles requests to access that information. Requests are sent by individuals who know the website’s domain name or address.