Blog Questions for Week 3
IP is an Internet protocol address this acts as a unique identifier which is then used to identify and to communicate with other stations on the computer network.
The reason why IP addresses are due to run out is because of the sortage of addresses as more and more users are joining every day which limits the amount of IP address that are available to new users. This has lead to IP addresses running out on IPv4
Another main cause of the problem is overload beacuse of double requests that are made my the user this tends to stall the server, another cause of the problem has been Vista which has also put load on DNS servers which will overtax the system causing it probally to crash and process requests slowly
DNS has many functions such as
- answering requests
- contacting other DNS
- pass on requests to other servers
- display an error message
having excessive IP addresses will lead DNS not functioning propally leading to it running out
To solve the problem IPv6 could be introduced to act as a back up which can work along side IPv4 they can work accordingly to prevent the run out.
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