Internet Tools

Task A
Traceroute from the chosen site to curtin.edu.au - cut and paste the entire list of 'hops' from there to Curtin.1.How many ‘hops’ are there? 192.What is the average time in milliseconds from the tools site to the curtin server? 234 milliseconds 3.Looking at these results, find out the IP NUMBER of the hostname curtin.edu.au: 134.7.179.56

Task B
Further Exploration. Ping the Blackboard site and compare the time with the time taken to ping from the net tools site. 1.Is it less or more than you expected? It was less than I expected.2.Why? I didn't realise the internet path would be so short and therefore much faster.

Traceroute from your computer to curtin.edu.au:

1.Compare the number of hops with the earlier traceroute: The earlier traceroute had 109 hops in comparision to only 14 hops from the traceroute direct from my computer.

2.What sort of differences can you observe? The internet path is shorter when requesting information directly from your personal computer. When requesting information through other websites it takes more hops and a longer time to retrieve the information.Traceroute has introduced me to the technical side of the internet. It is interesting to how the information displayed on my computer has been delivered. There is an invisible world at work sending packets of information through different routers around the globe within milliseconds; it’s somewhat hard to comprehend.