Thursday, February 17, 2011

Learning Journal #2


This module has been very interesting. Probably the coolest thing we learned was that you can either enter the domain or the ip address into the address bar and still get to the web page. Our one web lab covered this very well. Also learning about routing and the internet backbone was cool as well, the video we watched in class was very informative. I know it's technically module three but I'd also like to mention I learned a lot about the deep web today and will cover that in the next learning journal.

Here is a video on how to find an ip address through cmd prompt.


ip address - A numerical number assigned to a device on the internet.
tracert - a computer network tool for measuring the route path and transit times of packets across an Internet Protocol
packet - a formatted unit of data carried by a packet mode computer network.
firewall - part of a computer system or network that is designed to block unauthorized access while permitting authorized communications.