Other Interesting resources

PDF of the text

Introduction to the Domain Naming System (DNS).  This is how addresses like 147.134.144.2 are translated to an FQDN like eden.creighton.edu.

Everyone: How IP masquerading/Network Address Translation works.
Linux groups: here is some information on IP Masquerading that you should read.  Also, check it out on Google.
Windows groups: here is some information on Routing and Remote Access service that you should read.

Network World - encyclopedia of networking terms

Using switches instead of hubs

How DNS works

Online network calculator - need for class 

PORTS search page and a complete ports listing page

POP commands

FTP commands  

The OSI Model lecture

How the Internet runs lecture

A complete history of the Internet

Here is a link to the University network documentation site.  This is pretty good stuff - I am sure we will refer to it often during class.

Article on the origins of packet switching

"In the Beginning Was the Command Line"

Darryl's TCP/IP primer

How one school shapes bandwidth  and   Napster was nothing compared to this years bandwidth hogs   Here are some CU statistics in a PPT show