TRACEROUTE

TASK#4 TRACEROUTES

In this task, we were asked to firstly choose a site with which to access the traceroute/ping tools. I chose to use network-tools. Upon entering the site, I then typed in curtin.edu.au. This is the result of that submission

From the results we were asked to determine the following:-

"How many ‘hops’ are there?"

"what is the average time in milliseconds from the tools site to the curtin server?"

"find out the IP NUMBER of the hostname curtin.edu.au"

As you can see from the screenshot, there were 18 hops, and the average time from the tools site to the curtin server was 267ms.

The IP Number for curtin is 134.7.179.53. These results also tells us where in the world this site is "134.7.179.53 is from Australia (AU) in region Oceania.

I found this task quite fascinating, and it answered a few questions I had regarding how a friend of mine could possibly know my IP address. Let me explain.... A friend of mine has a remote computer repair service, as well as his own web site, I stream his music playlist at times. One day whilst talking with him, he knew I was listening, he also knew which other people were listening. When I asked him how he knew that particular IP address was mine, he smugly replied "I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you". So thanks to this task I can be smug in return and let my friend know that I am becoming more knowledgable, it will not be for much longer that he can hide his "secrets" from me.