March 21, 2015

62: Send It Into The Void Baby

2 hours 51 minutes

John tackles how the internet works - the most requested topic as voted by Pragmatic listeners in this, the penultimate episode of the show.
With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey.

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Historical Overviews:

History of the Internet

A Brief History of the Internet

Token Rings:

Token Rings

How Token Ring Works

OSI and TCP/IP Stacks:

TCP/IP Protocol Fundamentals

OSI model

The Physical Layer:

Ethernet Physical Layer

Ethernet Over Twisted Pair

Exponential Backoff

Twisted Pair

Addressing:

MAC address

What are MAC addresses and how are they used?

Guidelines for Use Organizationally Unique Identifier and Company ID

IEEE Registration Authority

IPv6: An Unreachable Wall?

How ARP Works

Subnetwork

Intranets and Firewalls:

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

Private Network

Address Allocation for Private Internets

Private network

Network Address Translation

I Have a Router, Do I Need a Firewall?

About the OS X Application Firewall

Firewalls

Backbones and ISP Backhaul Costs:

Nortel OC-192 10-GBIT/S Transport Platform

Packet over SONET/SDH

Synchronous Optical Networking

Internet Transit Prices - Historical and Projections

Internet Cost Structures and Interconnection Agreements

Domains:

Domain Name System

Global DNS Propagation Checker

List of DNS Record Types

Country Code Top-level Domain

Using the Google Public DNS

World Wide Web:

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HTTP/2

Web Servers Popularity by Ranking

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Right-to-left

McMansion

Octet (computing)

Port (computer networking)

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