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A server that implements the DNS protocol and can resolve queries. A resolver usually serves a set of clients (e.g. all hosts in campus or all clients of a given ISP). It sends DNS queries to nameservers everywhere on behalf of its clients and stores the received answers in its cache. A resolver must know the IP addresses of the root nameservers.
RIP
Routing Information Protocol. An intradomain routing protocol based on distance vectors that is sometimes used in enterprise networks. RIP is defined in :rfc:`2453`.
RIR
Regional Internet Registry. An organization that manages IP addresses and AS numbers on behalf of :term:`IANA`.
root nameserver
A name server that is responsible for the root of the domain names hierarchy. There are currently a dozen root nameservers and each DNS resolver See http://www.root-servers.org/ for more information about the operation of these root servers.
round-trip-time
The round-trip-time (RTT) is the delay between the transmission of a segment and the reception of the corresponding acknowledgment in a transport protocol.
router
A relay operating in the network layer.
RPC
Several types of remote procedure calls have been defined. The RPC mechanism defined in :rfc:`5531` is used by applications such as NFS
SDU (Service Data Unit)
a Service Data Unit is the unit information transferred between applications
segment
a segment is the unit of information transfer in the transport layer
SMTP
The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is defined in :rfc:`821`
SNMP