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DNS: Paul Mockapetris

DNS: Paul Mockapetris

Mirjam Kühne

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DNS is a critical system in all networks, as it converts names to topological addresses where services can be found.

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DNS Adoption: Paul Vixie

DNS Adoption: Paul Vixie

Mirjam Kühne

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Even though DNS seems obvious now, it took a good coder to sit down and write an initial implementation to get the protocol deployed in early networks. Paul Vixie, who wrote the original BIND toolset, joins the history of networking.

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WHOIS: Mark Kosters

WHOIS: Mark Kosters

Mirjam Kühne

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WHOIS is a crucial protocol for the day-to-day operation of the Internet, providing information on who owns what address space, and how to contact them.

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DECnet: Dave Oran

DECnet: Dave Oran

Mirjam Kühne

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The story of DECnet labs is, in part, the story of how the inventions of some of the brightest minds in the early days of networking ultimately made their way into the Internet Protocol.

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DMVPN: Mike Sullenberger

DMVPN: Mike Sullenberger

Mirjam Kühne

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We often seem to think that new ideas, like SD-WAN, "just come out of nowhere." In this recording of the history of networking, Mike Sullenberger joins us to talk about DMVPN, which is one of the technologies that drove the SD-WAN revolution.

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Policy Based Management: Joel Halpern

Policy Based Management: Joel Halpern

Mirjam Kühne

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This recording explores many of the concepts that lie behind intent based networking.

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YANG: Phil Shafer

YANG: Phil Shafer

Mirjam Kühne

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YANG is a data modeling language used to model configuration data, state data, Remote Procedure Calls, and notifications for network management protocols, described in RFC 7950. The origins of YANG are rooted in work Phil Shafer did in building an interface system for JUNOS. Phil joins us on this e…

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CSNET: Larry Landweber

CSNET: Larry Landweber

Mirjam Kühne

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Larry Landweber is John P. Morgridge Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He founded the CSNET project in 2979, one of the earliest networks eventually contributing to the creation of the Internet as it exists today. The CSNET eventually became National Sci…

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TCP/IP: Douglas Comer

TCP/IP: Douglas Comer

Mirjam Kühne

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The Transmission Control Protocol, or TCP, is one of the foundational technologies of packet switched networks. TCP not only provides windowed flow control, it also manages the retransmission of data when errors are detected, and sockets for addressing individual applications on a host. Douglas Com…

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Spanning Tree: Radia Perlman

Spanning Tree: Radia Perlman

Mirjam Kühne

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The spanning tree protocol used to connect Ethernet segments together was actually created after routing, over the span of a single week. Radia Perlman, who invented spanning tree, joins the history of networking.

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