SEEM3490 Information Systems Management Lecture 03 Web Information System II

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1 SEEM3490 Information Systems Management Lecture 03 Web Information System II Browsers! Today, we have many browsers!! Internet Explorer! Firefox! Safari! Opera! Chrome! More browsers means more difficult for a programmer s job

2 IP Address and Domain Name! It is perfectly fine to type IP Address in a browser for in-house applications! Yet, it may not good for a public web site.! So we may need to buy a domain name.! Note: most hosting companies (no matter free or not) allow you to use a custom domain name Domain Name! Domain name is NOT free. You need to pay for annual fee! It just like renting an apartment. You need to pay for it.! There are numerous companies allow you to buy URL! Search carefully in the web, compare the prices of different companies, read the terms and conditions carefully.! Different companies may provide different services.! Ask yourself what kind of services you want!! WhoisGuard? URL forwarding? forwarding? Transfer? Parking? Advertisement? Dynamic DNS? (too many)

3 Domain Name (cont'd)! Read the restrictions carefully before you buy:! E.g.,.com.hk can only be purchased if you have registered a company in Hong Kong (documentation proof is required)! Remember:! Buying a domain name is just like buying a house!! People can make money (not a small amount) by re-selling the domain! E.g., if you bought the domain name " before Microsoft buy it, then I think Microsoft will pay whatever you ask for Domain Name System! DNS Domain Name System! In the very very old days, the hostnames to IP address were mapped in a local file! As the Internet grows, it becomes impossible to keep all of the information in a local file system. We need a systematic structure DNS

4 Domain Name System Brief History! 1983! Paul Mockapetris from UC Irvine designed the DNS (RFC 882 and RFC 883).! 1984! Douglas Terry, Mark Painter, David Riggle, and Songnian Zhou from UC Berkeley (all are students) wrote the first Unix name server implementation, called the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) Server.! 1985! Kevin Dunlap from DEC revised the DNS implementation. BIND was ported to the Windows NT in 1990 and is the most widely used DNS software on the Internet even now. Domain Name System Structure! DNS has a hierarchical structure! Last component of a URL was intended to indicate the type of organization hosting the computer! Two letter codes indicate the country of origin hosting the site. They are defined in ISO 3166 Code Meaning Root com edu Commercial Educational com hk gov int Government International Organization edu org mil net org Military Network related Miscellaneous cs cuhk se hku

5 Domain Name System in Action (cont'd)! Within the same network:! You are using a computer in CUHK! You want to find cs.cuhk.edu.hk Where is cs.cuhk.edu.hk? IP Address of cs.cuhk.edu.hk CUHK server cs.cuhk.edu.hk must be in the host name IP address table in the cuhk.edu.hk name-server (because cs is under CUHK!) Domain Name System in Action (cont'd)! Scenario:! You are using your computer at home. Your ISP is PCCW. You want to request Theoretical operation: root server hk server PCCW server edu.hk server cuhk.edu.hk server

6 Domain Name System in Action (cont d)! Root server information:! Domain Name System in Action (cont'd)! Yet, the root server workload will be huge!! In practice caching is used in DNS servers to overcome this problem, and as a result, root name servers actually are involved with very little of the total traffic. PCCW server

7 Domain Name System in Action (cont'd)! Because of caching, when you have updated your domain name record (e.g., you have moved your server from to ), it takes time (from a few minutes to days) for all people in the world to be able to access your domain in the new address!! Now the only question left is:! How can you set up your domain (e.g., points to a specific IP Address? Host Records! To point a domain name to an IP address, it is usually known as set up Host Records.! There are several ways to do so. The easiest one is to use the tools provided by your domain name registrar.

8 Host Records (cont d)! There are many record types (See: The most common ones are:! A Address Record! Used to map hostnames to an IP address of the host. E.g., maps to ! MX Mail Exchange Record! Maps a domain name to a list of message transfer agents for that domain. E.g., if you use google business for hosting your , you have to set MX = ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. Media Access Control (MAC) Address! Besides IP Address, we also need MAC Address (Media Control Address) to transfer data.! Do you know why?! To identify the MAC Address of the target computer, we use Address Resolution Protocol.

9 More About MAC Address! A unique identifier assigned to network interfaces for communications for most IEEE 802 network technologies.! Although intended to be a permanent and globally unique identification, it is possible to change the MAC address on most modern hardware.! Changing MAC addresses is necessary in network virtualization. It can also be used in the process of exploiting security vulnerabilities. This is called MAC spoofing. MAC Spoofing! Very simple in Windows (More complicated on Linux of Mac)

10 Address Resolution Protocol in Action IP: MAC: C-E8-FF-55 IP: MAC: 1A-23-F9-CD-06-9A IP: MAC: C-E8-FF-55 IP: MAC: 1A-23-F9-CD-06-9B IP: MAC: CC-49-DE-D0-AB-7D IP: MAC: E6-E BB-4B IP: MAC: IP: MAC: IP: MAC: IP: MAC: More Information! 10).aspx

11 Subnetting! Divide the network into several sub-network! Using subnet mask! Usage:! The national ISP divides a granted large block into and assign each of them to a regional ISP! The regional ISP divides the received block and assign to local ISPs! The local ISP divides the received block and assign to the local companies! The local company divides the received block Supernetting (NAT)! We do not have enough IP Address!! IPv4 defines IP address as 32 bits long! IPv6 defines IP address as 64 bits long! IPv6 still in the research stage!! We may still run out of IP address no matter how long it is!! Solution: Supernetting (a.k.a Network Address Translation, NAT)!! Having a large number of IP address for internal use, and only ONE address for external (Internet) use

12 Supernetting (NAT) (cont'd) Range Total Addresses Reserved for Private Networks References! Books:! Behrouz A. Forouzan. Data Communications and Networking. McGraw Hill. 4th Edition ! James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross. Computer Networking. Addison Wesley. 3rd Edition