WA Computer Science ATAR Year 11: Internet protocols, ports and DNS
Students learn how IP, TCP, UDP, HTTP and email protocols, port numbers and DNS work together to deliver a web page from a URL.
One content description from the full WA Computer Science ATAR Year 11 — Network Communications journey. All 12 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (12)
1
Internet Protocol (IP)
2
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
3
User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
4
Port numbers
5
Purpose of HTTP
6
HTTP request and response
7
Email protocols: SMTP and IMAP
8
Splitting a URL into its parts
9
Why domain names are used instead of IP addresses
10
Domain name server (DNS)
11
A DNS lookup step by step
12
From URL to web page: the full sequence
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