Networking

We discussed network architecture, especially fully-connected vs. the bus topology (book section 15.1, page 489).

Then we reviewed technologies such as IP addresses (IPv4 and IPv6), and domain names (DNS). See the following videos.

• What is an IP address? (3:07)

• DNS resolution (6:42)

• Running out of IP addresses (8:24)

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