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74 APPENDIX 4 OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF TERMS The following terms are defined for better understanding of the project:

DNS Domain Name Service is the service provided by one or more computers in a network to help locate a path to a desired node. This saves every system on a network from having to keep a list of every system it wants to talk to. Used by mail gateways.

Internet refer to a computer network based on TCP/IP and related protocols. A public network of networks interconnecting businesses, universities, government facilities, and research centers.

FTP File Transfer Protocol refers to which enables file transfer between systems.

IP Internet Protocol is the protocol responsible for transporting datagrams across the Internet.

Network administrators is the person involved in deployment, configuration, maintenance and monitoring of active network gear: switches, routers, firewalls.

75 NFS Network File System is the network virtual disk system that enables a clientcomputer to mount remote file systems and directories. Originally developed by Sun Microsystems.

Node refers to a computer on a network. OSI Open System Interconnection, the ISO standard model for defining data communication.

Open source is a set of principles and practices that promote access to the design and production of goods and knowledge. The term is most commonly applied to the source of software that is available to the general public with relaxed or non-existent intellectual property restrictions. This allows users to create software content through incremental individual effort or through collaboration.

RMON Remote monitor is the remote network monitor that enables the collection of information about network traffic.

RPC Remote Procedure Call refers to which enables procedures to be executed on a server.

Server refers to computers are devices designed to run such an application or applications, often for extended periods of time with minimal human direction

76 SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol refers to which is used to transfer electronic mail between systems.

System administrator, systems administrator, or sysadmin, is a person employed to maintain, and operate a computer system or network. System administrators may be members of an information technology.2

TCP Transmission Control Protocol is the protocol between a pair of applications responsible for reliable, connection-oriented data transmission.

Telnet is the protocol used to establish remote terminal connections.

UDP User Datagram Protocol refers to a connectionless protocol used to transfer data between agents.

77 APPENDIX 5 OPERATIONAL LIST OF ACRONYMS CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface DNS stands for Domain Name Service GOSIP means Government Open System Interconnection Profile GUI stands for Graphical User Interface FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol IP stands for Internet Protocol LAN means Local Area Network NFS stands for Network File System NIC stands for Network Information Center NT means New Technology POP means Post Office Protocol RFC stands for Request For Comments RMON means Remote monitor RPC means Remote Procedure Call SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol TCP stands for transmission Control Protocol UDP means User Datagram Protocol VT stands for Virtual terminal WAN means Wide Area Network WWW means World Wide Web