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Wireshark Revealed: Essential Skills for IT Professionals
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Wireshark Revealed: Essential Skills for IT Professionals

by James H Baxter, Yoram Orzach, Charit Mishra
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
20h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 10. HTTP and DNS

In this chapter, we will go through the following recipes:

  • Filtering DNS traffic
  • Analyzing regular DNS operations
  • Analyzing DNS problems
  • Filtering HTTP traffic
  • Configuring HTTP preferences
  • Analyzing HTTP problems
  • Exporting HTTP objects
  • HTTP flow analysis and the Follow TCP Stream window
  • Analyzing HTTPS traffic – SSL/TLS basics

Introduction

Domain Name System (DNS) is a protocol that is used for resolving names to the IP addresses. It is used over the Internet when you browse a website, and then the DNS resolves the web server name to an IP address. It is also used in enterprise networks when looking for a server name that is translated to an IP address.

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Secured HTTP (HTTPS) are both used for ...

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