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Problems with the Internet

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IP Addresses <<->>One of the primary concerns with the Internet is that it could run out of IP addresses. Since there are more and more Internet users every day, the desired web page name is not guaranteed when a web page is designed. Each web page has its own IP address. Therefore, if we don't have enough IP addresses to use, then we will have problems trying to activate new web cites. IP addresses are 32-bit addresses that identify every attachment of a machine to the Internet. Groups of these addresses, called sub nets, are geographically co-located. The DNS Host names parallel the IP addresses in identifying individual network connections and sub nets, but are further distinguished by a domain hierarchy based on some or all of the following: country code, service code, network name, and/or organization name. We may be beginning to run out of free space, but there is a solution to solve it. It called IPV6, also stands for IP version 6. IP version 6 will give us more IP addresses. To learn more about IPV6, you can visited The Internet Enrgeering Task Force's web page, http://www.ietf.org.


Viruses <<->>Another problem for Internet users today are computer viruses. Everyday Norton Antivirus comes up with new definition of what a virus is. Therefore, we have to update our virus definition at least once every three months. A virus is a program that can "infect" other programs by modifying them to include a possibly evolved copy of itself. Some examples of viruses are replication, camouflage, event watching, and delivery viruses. This means that a virus has options to copy itself, distort itself to avoid detection, wait for a specific event to occur before reacting, or corrupt files by deleting files and displaying messages.