A Practical Guide to Fedora™ and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®

10. Networking and the Internet

In This Chapter

Types of Networks and How They Work 362

Network Protocols 370

IPv6 373

Network Utilities 382

ping: Tests a Network Connection 386

traceroute: Traces a Route Over the Internet 387

host and dig: Query Internet Nameservers 388

whois: Looks Up Information About an Internet Site 388

Distributed Computing 390

WWW: World Wide Web 400

Objectives

After reading this chapter you should be able to:

• Discuss a variety of network types

• Define several network protocols

• List the software and hardware components of networks

• Explain the features and advantages of IPv6

• List several network utilities

• Explain how ping works

• Use dig to determine the nameserver for a Web site

• Describe distributed computing ...