-  Networks have to have some way of uniquely identifying the hosts

 -  Asynchronous sockets are a refinement of non-blocking

 -  A function is said to "block" when it waits until it completes the requested operation or fails trying before returning. (Sockets are blocking by default under Winsock.) The main use for [..]

 -  A bridge is a multi-homed

 -  The Berkeley Software Distribution of Unix took an early lead over originator AT&T’s offerings by providing extra features and functionality that didn’t appear in AT&T Unix (also called Sy [..]

 -  A program that initiates a network connection. By extension, a client program usually has some kind of user interface, often a GUI. In a typical client/server protocol, the client is the active pa [..]

 -  A datagram protocol, such as IP or UDP

 -  An optimization to TCP to improve throughput. There’s a FAQ item

 -  The Domain Name Service is one of the core Internet protocols and mechanisms. DNS is what translates human-readable names (e.g. "www.microsoft.com") into the binary IP addresses that are [..]

 -  Domain names are the human-readable addresses used on the Internet (e.g., "www.microsoft.com"). The Domain Name Service