Network Administration Questions

A scope is a range, or pool, of IP addresses that can be leased to DHCP clients on a given subnet.

Internet Service Provider (ISP) is a company offering access to internet. They offer various services:

1. Internet Access

2. Domain name registration

3. Dial-up access

4. Leased line access

There exist several ways to connect to the internet. Following are these connection types available:

* Dial-up Connection

* ISDN

* DSL

* Cable TV Internet connections

* Satellite Internet connections

* Wireless Internet Connections

The LMHOSTS file is a static method of resolving NetBIOS names to IP addresses in the same way that the HOSTS file is a static method of resolving domain names into IP addresses. An LMHOSTS file is a text file that maps NetBIOS names to IP addresses; it must be manually configured and updated.

DNS servers often must communicate with DNS servers outside of the local network. A forwarder is an entry that is used when a DNS server receives DNS queries that it cannot resolve locally. It then forwards those requests to external DNS servers for resolution.

In the mesh topology, each computer is connected to the other with a separate physical link in a network. It is most reliable topology as the network does not get down in case one of the nodes is failed.

The internet address( IP address) is 32bits that uniquely and universally defines a host or router on the internet. The portion of the IP address that identifies the network is called netid. The portion of the IP address that identifies the host or router on the network is called hostid.

It is a single computer in a network reserved for serving the needs of the network.

FDM is an analog technique that can be applied when the bandwidth of a link is greater than the combined bandwidths of the signals to be transmitted.