Appendix B: Acronyms
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This appendix provides a list of the terms and acronyms used within this book along with their meaning.
| ACK | Acknowledge |
| ALGOL | ALGOrithmic Language |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| API | Application Program Interface |
| ARP | Address Resolution Protocol |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| BASIC | Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code |
| BBC | British Broadcasting Company |
| BCPL | Basic Combined Programming Language |
| BSD | Berkeley Source Distribution |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
| CIDR | Classless Inter-Domain Routing |
| CPAN | Comprehensive Perl Archive Network |
| CWI | Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica |
| DF | Don’t Fragment |
| DNS | Domain Name System |
| EOF | End of File |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions |
| FIFO | First In, First Out |
| FQDN | Fully Qualified Domain Name |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| GCC | GNU C Compiler |
| GNU | GNU’s Not Unix |
| HBO | Host Byte Order |
| HTML | HyperText Markup Language |
| htonl | Host To Network Long |
| htons | Host To Network Short |
| HTTP | HyperText Transport Protocol |
| ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol |
| IDE | Integrated Development Environment |
| IDLE | Integrated DeveLopment Environment |
| IEC | International Electrotechnical Commission |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IGMP | Internet Group Management Protocol |
| I/O | Input/Output |
| IPC | InterProcess Communication |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IPv4 | Internet Protocol Version 4 |
| IPv6 | Internet Protocol Version 6 |
| ISO | International Standards Organization |
| JDK | Java Development Kit |
| JRE | Java Runtime Environment |
| JVM | Java Virtual Machine |
| KB | KiloByte |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| MAC | Medium Access Control |
| MB | MegaByte |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| MSS | Maximum Segment Size |
| MTU | Maximum Transfer Unit |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| NBO | Network Byte Order |
| ntohl | Network To Host Long |
| ntohs | Network To Host Short |
| OOB | Out-of-Band |
| PDU | Protocol Data Unit |
| PERL | Practical Extraction and Report Language |
| PEP | Python Enhancement Proposal |
| POP3 | Post Office Protocol, Version 3 |
| PSF | Python Software Foundation |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| RDP | Reliable Datagram Protocol |
| RDM | Reliably Delivered Messages |
| RDMA | Remote Direct Memory Access |
| RFC | Request for Comments |
| RMI | Remote Method Invocation |
| RTT | Round Trip Time |
| SCTP | Stream Control Transmission Protocol |
| SED | Stream Editor |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transport Protocol |
| STD | Standard |
| SYN | Synchronize |
| TCL | Tool Command Language |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
| TOS | Type of Service |
| TTL | Time to Live |
| UART | Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter |
| UDP | Universal Datagram Protocol |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| USENET | User’s Network |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
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