ACARA 9-10 Digital Technologies: Network addressing and domain names
Students learn how MAC addresses, IP addresses, DHCP, subnet masks, gateways and DNS identify devices and locate them, and use ping and nslookup to test them.
One content description (AC9TDI10K01) from the full ACARA Digital Technologies Years 9–10 — Networked Systems and Access Control journey. All 21 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (21)
1
What a MAC address is
2
MAC address format
3
IP address
4
IPv4 address format
5
Spotting an invalid IPv4 address
6
IPv6 address format
7
Static IP address
8
Dynamic IP address
9
DHCP
10
Differences between a MAC address and an IP address
11
Private and public IP addresses
12
Subnet mask
13
Checking whether two devices are on the same network
14
Default gateway
15
Why domain names are used instead of IP addresses
16
Splitting a URL into its parts
17
Domain name server (DNS)
18
A DNS lookup step by step
19
Domain table (name-to-address table)
20
The ping command
21
The nslookup command
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