The Application Layer 1 -- Web Servers and DNS

Learning Goals

Goals for this week's lab

• Create a basic network topology in GNS3
• Use the command line interface to perform basic network-related tasks such as setting IP addresses and testing connectivity between hosts
• Run web and DNS servers to learn about
  • Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
  • Ports, layers, and packets
  • Network & service configuration as well as address resolution

The preparation material for this week's lab can be found on Canvas.