Sunday, 17 January 2016

General Knowledge on Networking

Any Windows programming bod should have an up to date, working knowledge of common networking commands.  Here are a few of the basic ones.

nslookup - queries the Domain Name System for domain name and IP address mapping for a DNS record

whois - protocol to get ownership information for a given domain. Communication is done using TCP and whois servers listen on TCP port 43. The protocol is all in ASCII.

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