Terms starting with C

7 terms in Internet

  • Cache hit ratio

    Internet › Content delivery

    Cache hit ratio is the share of requests a CDN or cache answers from stored copies instead of the origin, a key…

  • ccTLD

    Internet › Domain names

    A ccTLD is a country code top-level domain such as .de or .jp, a two-letter domain name ending reserved for a country…

  • CDN

    Internet › Content delivery

    A CDN is a geographically distributed network of caching servers that delivers web content from locations close to users to cut latency…

  • Certificate authority

    Internet › Internet trust

    A Certificate Authority is a trusted organization that verifies identities and issues signed digital certificates binding public keys to domain names.

  • Certificate chain

    Internet › Internet trust

    A certificate chain is the ordered sequence of X.509 certificates that links a server certificate through intermediates to a trusted root authority.

  • CIDR

    Internet › Internet addressing

    CIDR, or Classless Inter-Domain Routing, describes IP address blocks with variable-length prefixes such as /24 and lets routers aggregate routes efficiently.

  • CNAME

    Internet › DNS records

    A CNAME is a DNS record that makes one domain name an alias of another, so resolvers follow it to the canonical…