Firewall & VPN

Firewall & VPN

Terms relating to firewalls, which help keep a network safe by not accepting potentially harmful datapackets. Also relates to VPNs, or virtual private networks, that virtually provide a different IP address which makes it seem that the user is using a computer from another location.

Industry: Network hardware

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registered authority

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

This refers to the DNS servers that have been registered at the InterNIC as the authorities for an Internet (DNS) domain. These name servers maintain the definitive information about a domain, such ...

reserved address

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

Reserved addresses are a bank of IP addresses set aside for Intranet use. They are not registered to any network, and hence, are not routable across the Internet. RFC 1597 and its replacement, RFC ...

resolver

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

Refers to the client software that is used to talk to a DNS server, such as DNSd, and hence, translate Internet names into IP addresses. Since resolvers do not know the location or IP address of any ...

RMC

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

This acronym means Raptor Management Console. RMC is a new product on Raptor Firewall 6.0. It replaces Hawk, which was the firewall's GUI on prior Raptor Firewall versions, and is built on the ...

root servers

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

Refers to the name servers of the root domains .com, .edu, .gov, and .org. These name servers specialize in providing referrals to the registered authorities within their domains.

route

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

A logical delivery path between two IP networks or hosts. When a specific path for a particular network or host does not exist, packets being sent to that host or network are delivered using the ...

secondary server

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

Refers to an authoritative DNS server that receives domain/zone information (that is, the DNS resource records it is responsible for) by requesting this information from the primary server for the ...