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Tag: internet-infrastructure

BGP and the Routing Protocol That Holds the Internet Together

Kirk Lougheed and Yakov Rekhter's Border Gateway Protocol replaced EGP with a path-vector system for exchanging reachability between autonomous networks, becoming the Internet's interdomain routing foundation.

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DNS and the Decision to Turn Internet Naming into a Distributed Database

The Domain Name System replaced a centrally distributed host file with a hierarchical, delegated and cached naming database capable of scaling with a rapidly growing Internet.

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