by Kristof Vandenborn | Jun 24, 2023 | Networking
In order to receive regular mail, the postal service in your country has to know where to deliver your mail. Well, on the internet it works kind of the same way. You either have an IPv4 or an IPv6 address Public vs Private Simply put 😉 a public IP (address) is the...
by Kristof Vandenborn | Jun 23, 2023 | Firewall, Networking, Security, Web design
In plain English, a CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a collection of servers spread across different locations around the world. Its purpose is to help deliver digital content, such as web pages, images, videos, and other files, to users in a faster and more...
by Kristof Vandenborn | Jun 19, 2023 | Firewall, Networking, Security
What are port numbers? As we were discussing the OSI model and the difference between TCP and UDP we already learned some of the bits how protocols work on the transport layer. Together with the transport protocol used (these are not limited to TCP and UDP only but...
by Kristof Vandenborn | Jun 15, 2023 | Firewall, Networking
Let’s spell out the acronyms first. TCP stands for Transmission Control Protocol and UDP stands for User Datagram Protocol. In networking we often use the OSI model as a reference to clarify on which layer of the OSI model a protocol is used. We did an article...
by Kristof Vandenborn | Jun 14, 2023 | Networking, Security
OSI stands for Open System Interconnection and Its model describes via which steps (called layers) computers take to communicate over a network. The seven layers are from top to bottom: Layer nameFunctionApplication layerHuman interaction with the application and the...
