ASSIGNMENT 7, October 19 through October 24, 09
For Class Discussion, Tuesday, October 20, 09
We will wrap up the NAT discussion we started on Friday.
Make sure you are prepared to explain the technical issues
that would arise if Caltech tried to "donate" to Brandeis
its unused IP addresses.
In addition, we will discuss two systems,
DNS and Google search engine.
Read about DNS in Chapter 4.A S&K, and
read The Anatomy
of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine by Sergey Brin
and Lawrence Page (the reading is available on-line).
Make sure you are ready to defend your response to the search engine
reading question you have handed in on Friday.
For Class Fri, October 24, 09
Quiz 2, covering all class material up to and including networks.
Here is a laundry list of topics for review.
System aphorism of the week
KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid.