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What the browser sends when you enter the url?

Asked By: mfsi_chinmayb | Asked On: May 2nd, 2012

When you enter the url in the browser what it sends to the server ? what is the path followed by the request sent by the browser?

Answered by: pavan.mustyala on: May 17th, 2012

Browser sends a DNS query to the configured DNS server in the network. DNS server responds with the IP address. This is for name resolution. Network Connection is then established to the IP address re...

Web server , application server , data base server

Asked By: mfsi_chinmayb | Asked On: May 15th, 2012

What is the difference between web server , application server and database server with a perfect application server?

Why do we use subnet mask? What are its uses?

Asked By: Bashur | Asked On: Aug 25th, 2006

Answered by: gaurav on: May 3rd, 2012

As its name suggest it is subnetting a big network in to small pieces to effectively use the network bandwidth for e.g 126.0.0.1 the subnet will be 255.0.0.0 in this case all system which are having s...

Answered by: prashant on: Mar 4th, 2012

sub netting is used to divide an ip address into many ips.
this is must coz we cant give an ip (without sub-netting) to every station. so sub-netting is important

Server restarts

Asked By: rajasmanish | Asked On: Feb 3rd, 2011

If the server restarts often automatically? What could be the cause? How will you troubleshoot it?

Answered by: venkat on: May 1st, 2012

First we should have to check the prob from event viewer why the server got rebooted after that based on error log we can find out the resolution for that........

Webpage login

Asked By: rajasmanish | Asked On: Feb 3rd, 2011

Assume there are around 100 users at a place, when they type any web address in the browser, all of them get the error message as "page cannot be displayed". What could be the cause of this error? How will you troubleshoot it?

Answered by: amith mishra on: May 1st, 2012

1)First go to cmd and try to ping the websit ex: ping www.google.com, if it replays ur net is alive else no
2)Check for the connection starting from ur router from where the connection has been started.
3)Check for the cables and crimping.

Answered by: prashant on: Mar 4th, 2012

one reason to it could be that the webpage does not implemented to use threads

Internet and telephone network topology

Asked By: sudhir kashid | Asked On: Dec 19th, 2008

Which topology is mostly used as the internet & telephone network?

Answered by: Sandhya.Kishan on: Apr 19th, 2012

Internet does not follow a standard topology,networks may combine topologies and connect multiple smaller networks, in effect turning several smaller networks into one larger one.

A ring topology can be used for telephone networks.

Answered by: cisconick on: Apr 15th, 2012

There is a hybrid technology used. Most devices are connected using a star topology. but if redundancy is to be used a mesh topology is used. The backbone uses a bus topology.

What is hpov? How does it works? What are its monitoring tools?

Asked By: Munish Gopal | Asked On: Sep 19th, 2007

Answered by: vinoth on: Apr 14th, 2012

HP open view is a best monitoring tool... its works on SNMP protocol. it discover the network and analysis the server and report the error log or generate the ticket.....

Answered by: infe12 on: May 30th, 2008

HPOV - HP OpenView is tool related to service desk operations where tickets will be logged in case of a IT related issue. This tools maintains the CMDB of a particular organisation by which a ticket can be logged on the end user's name stating the issue and assigning it to the related groups

Peer to peer networking

Asked By: rajivsinghpratap | Asked On: Jan 8th, 2011

What is peer to peer networking?

Answered by: Mohan Lal Sharma on: Mar 29th, 2012

when two or more PCs are connected and share resources without going through a separate server computer. P2P networking has generated tremendous interest worldwide among both Internet surfers and comp...

Answered by: Jordan on: Mar 28th, 2012

Its a end to end connection

How can I control the usb ports through network?

Asked By: SATHISH | Asked On: Jun 28th, 2006

Answered by: Mahipal on: Mar 9th, 2012

yes you can block unblock usb port by system regedit. go to rum menu and type regedit and preass enter, than got to Hkey_local_machine. than expend it and select system-current contralset-services-sl...

Answered by: ramesh on: Dec 4th, 2006

registry edit use gpedit run script

Why do we need ip address when the mac address is unique? Can't we communicate only with mac address?

Asked By: Nazeer | Asked On: Apr 4th, 2007

Answered by: prashant on: Mar 4th, 2012

the answer would be our ip address determines our location........if we use a mac instead then we have to search the whole internet to forward a packet, this would flood the network. The advantage of ...

Answered by: gaurav on: Nov 18th, 2011

the function of mac address and ip address different mac address is physical address which is not work on Internet. but ip address is used to communicate with in world. no we cannot communicate only with mac address because this is physical address and communication possible on logical address.

Which layer are used in router and switch

Asked By: Nilesh | Asked On: Jul 11th, 2007

Answered by: prashant on: Mar 4th, 2012

a switch is a layer 2 device and a router is a layer 3 device

Answered by: amuthan on: Sep 19th, 2011

Router used in network layer and layer 2. Switches are used in data link layer.

What is protocol? How many types of protocols are there?

Asked By: prasadekonex | Asked On: Jul 23rd, 2007

Answered by: Bablu Shaw on: Feb 22nd, 2012

A set of rule that is working in different field in different protocol. there are multiple of protocol. it is used for communication method.

Answered by: rahul rao on: Feb 13th, 2012

Set of rules that determines how the devices communicate in a network with each other. There are various types of protocols incremented in the different field of networks and services. Out of the most...

What is difference between layer 2 switch and layer 3 switch ?

Asked By: Dheeraj Choudhary | Asked On: Mar 13th, 2006

Answered by: Killerookami on: Feb 3rd, 2012

A layer two switch can only switch traffic, while a layer 3 switch can route traffic via physical interfaces and VLAN interfaces. Layer three switches can also run routing protocols such as oaf and bgp.

Answered by: blackhat on: Feb 3rd, 2012

Layer 2 switch in unmanageable. It is just used to connect the network segments. It has only one broadcast domain for each port and collision domain as many ports are there. while layer 3 switch is m...

Increase internet speed

Asked By: dhananjaym | Asked On: Jan 11th, 2010

List any four ways of increasing internet speed

Answered by: viki on: Jan 27th, 2012

this is an technique which increases 20% of Internet,,,,, Actually Windows reserves 20% of bandwidth for its updates.checking it will contribute the reserved bandwidth.. 1.In RUN type GPEDIT.MSC 2....

Answered by: venmalathy on: Sep 12th, 2011

Thanks for the sharing about increasing the Internet speed...Basically my Internet was slow,so i have searched for tips to increase the speed of the Internet,i got the tips here i used the tips to inc...

Can somebody give me a clear calculation and explanation why 2 is 10 in binary digits?

Asked By: tdj | Asked On: Apr 1st, 2006

Answered by: sujit on: Jan 27th, 2012

Binary counting is like "16 8 4 2 1" so if no. is 2 then it will 00010 but you can write is "10" if the no. will be 7 then binary will be 111 and if it will be 18 then 10010, so whatever no. you are taking is "1" and rest will b "0"

Answered by: tituxjec on: Mar 6th, 2009

Do not take it as '10' rather take it as '1' and then '0'. Refer to binary notation and you will be more clear

Dns server is down

Asked By: rajasmanish | Asked On: Feb 3rd, 2011

If dns server is down, what steps will you take to troubleshoot?

Answered by: sbmk_bala on: Dec 22nd, 2011

DNS Means Domain Name Service
DNS Server down means server is not available at that pont of time, there will be a lot of causes for that. DNS Server converts human fiendly loguage in to ip addresses when user browses. Otherwice user has to use ip address of perticuler server for browsing.

Answered by: Mahi on: Sep 19th, 2011

1. Verify that the server computer has a valid functioning network connection. First, check that related Server hardware (cables and network adapters) are working properly at the client using basic ...

A manager cannot print to network printer but all other users can, what will you do to fix the issue?

Asked By: ramraje | Asked On: Mar 4th, 2011

Answered by: sbmk_bala on: Dec 22nd, 2011

Find out the ip of printer
Ping the ip from manager system. If it is successfull go to no issue with cables and then go to settings re-configure the printer.

Answered by: IronHyde on: Dec 8th, 2011

Check managers network connection
Check RJ45 connector if cabled network
Check whether a network printer is installed in the Managers PC

How to configure dhcp server?

Asked By: elambarithi | Asked On: Nov 19th, 2005

Answered by: Vijay Sharma on: Nov 10th, 2011

How To Install and Configure a DHCP Server :


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323416

Answered by: hema on: Sep 9th, 2011

DHCP stands for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

Name 5 reasons why a user might not be able to logon to the network.

Asked By: ramraje | Asked On: Mar 4th, 2011

Answered by: Swati on: Oct 17th, 2011

may not remember the id or password right.

the password might have expired.

may not be choosing the right domain name at the log on screen.

computer might not be added to the n/w domain.

LAN n/w may be down.

What is the full form of "ping" (network commnd) ?

Asked By: vaghela vipul | Asked On: Jul 9th, 2007

Answered by: amuthan on: Sep 19th, 2011

Packet InterNet Groper

Answered by: iyyappan on: Aug 16th, 2011

packet internet groper

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