Week 8: Organizations and the Internet
Summary:
We consider global routing, name resolution, and other global
Internet stuff.
Goals:
- Understand BGP and why it is designed as it is.
- Become familiar with the idea of routing areas in OSPF.
- Understand the Domain Name Service.
- Grok the Internet.
Monday, March 9:
Interdomain routing and routing areas
Read:
Briefly answer
the following questions. Send your answers in the body of
an email to me (davisjan@cs.grinnell.edu)
by 11 a.m. Please use "CSC-364 03-09"
as the
subject line of your email. For problems, write a one-line answer. You
need not present your entire approach.
- Last week, I said that BGP was not exactly a shortest path
routing algorithm. What do you think I meant by that?
- Does reading about BGP help to explain any of the results
you saw from using
traceroute during last
week's lab?
- What is the most important thing that you learned from the
reading?
- What's a question you still have about the reading?
- About how long did you spend on the reading and problems?
Tuesday, March 3,
5:30 p.m.: No abstract due
There is no abstract due because you have an exam out.
Wednesday, March 11: DNS
& CDNs
Read:
- P&D 9.1.3 (p. 657 - 666) - DNS
- P&D 9.4.3 (p. 714 - 719) - CDNs
Briefly answer
the following questions. Send your answers in the body of
an email to me (davisjan@cs.grinnell.edu)
by 11 a.m. Please use "CSC-364 03-11" as the
subject line of your email. For problems, write a one-line
answer. You need not present your entire approach.
- Why does BGP run over
TCP, whereas RIP and OSPF are datagram oriented? (from Monday's material)
- P&D 9.1
- P&D 9.4
- What is the most important thing that you learned from the
reading?
- What's a question you still have about the reading?
- About how long did you spend on the readings and problems?
Friday, March 13:
Addressing and routing on EmuLab
Due:
Assigned:
Janet
Davis (davisjan@cs.grinnell.edu)
Created March 2, 2009
Last revised March 13, 2009