Zone file
The group of files that reside on the domain host or nameserver. The zone file designates a domain, its subdomains and mail server.
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WAIS
(Wide Area Information Servers) — A commercial software package that allows the indexing of huge quantities of information, and then making those indices searchable across networks such as the Internet. A prominent feature of WAIS is that the search results are ranked (scored) according to how relevant the hits are, and that subsequent searches can [...]
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Veronica
(Very Easy Rodent Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives) — Developed at the University of Nevada, Veronica is a constantly updated database of the names of almost every menu item on thousands of gopher servers. The Veronica database can be searched from most major gopher menus. See Also: Gopher
VB Script
The Microsoft® Visual Basic® programming language, [...]
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UNIX
A computer operating system (the basic software running on a computer, underneath things like word processors and spreadsheets). UNIX is designed to be used by many people at the same time (it is multi-user) and has TCP/IP built-in. It is the most common operating system for servers on the Internet.
URL
(Uniform Resource Locator) — The standard [...]
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T-1
A leased-line connection capable of carrying data at 1,544,000 bits-per-second. At maximum theoretical capacity, a T-1 line could move a megabyte in less than 10 seconds. That is still not fast enough for full-screen, full-motion video, for which you need at least 10,000,000 bits-per-second. T-1 is the fastest speed commonly used to connect networks to [...]
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Security Certificate
A chunk of information (often stored as a text file) that is used by the SSL protocol to establish a secure connection.
Security Certificates contain information about who it belongs to, who it was issued by, a unique serial number or other unique identification, valid dates, and an encrypted ‘fingerprint’ that can be used to [...]
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Real Audio / Real Video
Real Audio/Real Video enables users of personal computers and other consumer electronic devices to send and receive audio, video and other multimedia services using the Web.
enable users of personal computers and other consumer electronic devices to send and receive audio, video and other multimedia services using the Web.
Register (Domain Name)
Since every [...]
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Packet Switching
The method used to move data around on the Internet. In packet switching, all the data coming out of a machine is broken up into chunks, each chunk has the address of where it came from and where it is going. This enables chunks of data from many different sources to co-mingle on the [...]
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OC-3
Refers to a circuit that transmits 155,000,000 bits per second. This is the size of the largest Internet backbone providers networks.
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NT
Windows NT® is Microsoft’s® 32-bit operating system developed from what was originally intended to be OS/2 3.0 before Microsoft ®and IBM ceased joint development of OS/2. Used by web hosting companies in the network environment to offer customers support for Microsoft base products such as MS Access®, MS SQL® 7.0, and FrontPage® 2000.
Name Servers
A computer [...]
