Mastering Intranet and Internet Technology
Internet Services Review
1. How can you find and get a copy of RFC 1630?
2. What is Archie? How is it used?
3. What are the means of providing information?
4. How do the service provision services differ?
5. What communications capacities are required?
6. What parameters should be considered when choosing hardware for a service host?
7. What parameters should be considered when choosing software for a service host?
8. What are the prime support requirements of the different publishing services?
9. How do email, mail lists and newsgroups differ?
10 What's important in the administration of telnet?
11. How could Archie be used in an Intranet?
12. How can you control anonymous ftp?
13. What is SPAM? How is it responded to?
14. What are some considerations in running a mail server?
15. Distinguish between Push and Pull technologies.
16. Distinguish between Peer to Peer and Client/Server services.
17. List any terms that you are not sure of, or would like more information on.
1. How can you find and get a copy of RFC 1630?
Use Archie to search for it on anonymous ftp sites.
Use an ftp client to retrieve it.
Use email to request a copy from a known email provision service.
2. What is Archie? How is it used?
The archive of archives.
Archie records details of all files on anonymous ftp sites and provides a means of searching the resultant database. Files thus found may be retrieved via ftp.
3. What are the means of providing information?
Text
Images/Graphics
Audio
Video
Multimedia
4. How do the service provision services differ?
The amount and type of data presented.
The speed at which the data can be presented.
The requirements of the receiver.
5. What communications capacities are required?
Type
Speed
Text
Slow
Graphics
Medium
Audio
Fast
Video
Very Fast
Multimedia
Very Fast +
6. What parameters should be considered when choosing hardware for a service host?
7. What parameters should be considered when choosing software for a service host?
8. What are the prime support requirements of the different publishing services?
9. How do email, mail lists and newsgroups differ?
10 What's important in the administration of telnet?
11. How could Archie be used in an Intranet?
12. How can you control anonymous ftp?
13. What is SPAM? How is it responded to?
14. What are some considerations in running a mail server?
15. Distinguish between Push and Pull technologies.
16. Distinguish between Peer to Peer and Client/Server services.
17. List any terms that you are not sure of, or would like more information on.
Web Author: Geoff May
Last Update: 18/04/2001
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