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A gateway is a network node that serves as an access point to another network, often involving not only a change of addressing, but also a different networking technology.
In Internet networking, a private network is a computer network that uses a private address space of IP addresses.These addresses are commonly used for local area networks (LANs) in residential, office, and enterprise environments.
An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label such as 192.0.2.1 that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.
The owner and operator of Speedtest.net, Ookla, was established in 2006 by partners Mike Apgar and Doug Suttles. Suttles suggested the name Ookla because he already owned the Ookla.com domain name in honor of his pet cat, who was in turn named for a character on the TV series Thundarr the Barbarian. [5]
Many operating systems issue an ARP announcement during startup. This helps to resolve problems that would otherwise occur if, for example, a network card was recently changed (changing the IP-address-to-MAC-address mapping) and other hosts still have the old mapping in their ARP caches.
This is a list of countries by IPv4 address allocation.. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) distributes large blocks of addresses to regional Internet registries (RIRs), which then assign them to national Internet registries and local Internet registries within their respective service regions. [1]
For example, a Facebook user can link their email account to their Facebook to find friends on the site, allowing the company to collect the email addresses of users and non-users alike. [216] Over time, countless data points about an individual are collected; any single data point perhaps cannot identify an individual, but together allows the ...
After a long process of discussion and consensus brought us the first-ever crop of SecurePoll-elected administrators last November (see Signpost coverage of the creation of the process and its first trial), the first set of requests for comment regarding the administrator elections (AELECT) process have come to an end, having reached the following key conclusions: