Protocols

TCP/IP Frequently Asked Questions.

Gopher server formerly at Point Loma Nazarene University. Splendid live links. Also featuring Veronica-2 search engine. (For gopher links like this a Gopher capable browser such as Lynx or Firefox with the Overbite extension or must be used).

A brief presentation of the protocol, both its history and its current status, by an experienced Gopher system administrator.

An extention to the standard DCC protocol which offers the option to simply restart a transfer at the point it was broken off and to proceed without loss of connection time.

NTP Project page for Dr. Mills, primary NTP researcher for over twenty years. He and his students are working on NTP version 4 to improve robustness and security.

An open-source multimedia communication library written in C, implementing protocols such as SIP, SDP, RTP, STUN, TURN, and ICE.

The RFC which forms the second part of STD 8.

The IETF documentation of the protocol.

Full set of DNS services including static, dynamic, reverse, and bulk service.

Free to access DNS servers which attempt to detect phishing scams that are often times linked to from within unsolicited emails.

Web based DNS serving solution that allows companies and individuals to conveniently manage their own domain and web redirection.

Provides information about domain names and web hosting. Other tools include an IP subnet calculator and Internet speedtest.

Various IP, DNS and e-mail tools, Whois, Traceroute, Ping, SEO toools. Site contains browser addons, too.

Creates a DNS LOC record, which is meant to express the geographic location information for a domain name.

FTP-FTAM Gateway Specification. J. Mindel, R. Slaski. January 1993.

FTP Operation over Big Address Records (FOOBAR). D. Piscitello. June 1994.

Encryption Using KEA and SKIPJACK. R. Housley, P. Yee, W. Nace. February 2000.

Extensions to FTP. P. Hethmon. March 2007.

Provides advanced search filters. Registered users may also suggest servers which will be automatically indexed.

Providing FTP site hosting and file distribution solutions world-wide. Details of services and fees.

Conformance tests and interoperability tests for IPv6. Working together with the KAME and USAGI Project.

World-wide consortium of Internet vendors aiming to promote IPv6. Includes mailing lists, event listings, technical information, and links.

Sample chapter from her book and some background information about the book, which has been published by Oreilly.

This publication provides internetworking design and implementation information and helps you identify and implement practical internetworking strategies that are both flexible and scalable

Defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB) for use with network management protocols, and extends the basic Network Services Monitoring MIB to allow monitoring of Message Transfer Agents (MTAs).

Defines and discusses the requirements for Internet host software and covers the application and support protocols.

Common NNTP Extensions. S. Barber. October 2000. Updated by RFC 3977, 4643 and 4644.

SIP trunk provider offering quick SIP trunk configuration and flexible billing platform. Custom module available for easy integration for FreePBX.

A chapter from the MIB Smithy Documentation detailing several of the most common MIB design errors, their basis in the ASN.1 and SMI specifications, and how to correct them.

Transport Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2). J. Case, K. McCloghrie, M. Rose, S. Waldbusser. April 1993.

Structure of Management Information for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2). J. Case, K. McCloghrie, M. Rose, S. Waldbusser. April 1993.

SNMP Security Protocols. J. Galvin, K. McCloghrie, J. Davin. July 1992.

SNMP Administrative Model. J. Davin, J. Galvin, K. McCloghrie. July 1992.

V1; SNMP over Ethernet. M.L. Schoffstall, C. Davin, M. Fedor, J.D. Case. February 1989.

V1; Convention for Defining Traps for use with the SNMP. M.T. Rose. March 1991.

Developer toolkit for quick development of SNMP management applications. .net-library for building cross-platform, real-time applications to monitor network performance. For SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, and SNMPv3.

Provides a complete protocol stack and run-time environment required to support an SNMP agent within an embedded system.

The module provides strong cryptography for the Apache 1.3 webserver via SSL and TLS protocols, it was developed using OpenSSL, which is based on SSLeay. [Free / Open Source] (Ralf Engelschall, Ben Laurie)

The first description of the protocol with links to modifications.

Historic description of T/TCP. Includes links to RFCs and source code. Not being updated since Richard W. Stevens has passed away.

Research papers on TCP-Friendly Rate Control

Proposed and experimental improvements to congestion control.

An OpenBSD-specific way to relieve TCP performance degradation due to congestion in the opposite direction across a bottleneck.

Service provides a dynamic IP address the ability to run any kind of server from any Internet connection on any platform, including Windows and Linux.

Free Dynamic DNS, sub domains and managed DNS services. Web based update utility. No banner adds or nag-ware, totally free sub-domain service.

For pay, dynamic DNS service targeted for South Africa users only.

Free dynamic DNS service.

Regional Internet Registry that will allocates IP and AS numbers in the African region. Pending ICANN approval.

Various online tools: IP whois, DNS lookup, Ping, head info, test port and trace route.

A number of utilities related to IP address, ISP, MAC address and HTTP header.