Week 8: Organizations and the Internet

Summary: We consider global routing, name resolution, and other global Internet stuff.

Goals:


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.

  1. Last week, I said that BGP was not exactly a shortest path routing algorithm. What do you think I meant by that?
  2. Does reading about BGP help to explain any of the results you saw from using traceroute during last week's lab?
  3. What is the most important thing that you learned from the reading?
  4. What's a question you still have about the reading?
  5. 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:

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.

  1. Why does BGP run over TCP, whereas RIP and OSPF are datagram oriented? (from Monday's material)
  2. P&D 9.1
  3. P&D 9.4
  4. What is the most important thing that you learned from the reading?
  5. What's a question you still have about the reading?
  6. 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