Module One - Internet Tools

After reading the article on trace route tools i moved on to find a site which offered one.

Google quickly led me to http://centralops.net/co/ which was one of the sites recommended.

It was very easy to use and gave me the following result.

Tracing route to curtin.edu.au [134.7.179.53]...

hop

rtt

rtt

rtt

ip address

domain name

1

11

0

11

70.84.211.97

61.d3.5446.static.theplanet.com

2

0

0

0

70.84.160.162

vl2.dsr02.dllstx5.theplanet.com

3

0

0

0

70.85.127.109

po52.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com

4

0

0

0

70.87.253.21

et3-1.ibr03.dllstx3.theplanet.com

5

*

0

0

157.238.225.5

xe-4-4.r03.dllstx09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net

6

0

0

0

129.250.2.153

ae-2.r20.dllstx09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net

7

8

7

7

129.250.3.130

as-0.r20.hstntx01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net

8

5

5

5

129.250.3.25

ae-0.r21.hstntx01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net

9

49

49

49

129.250.3.121

as-1.r21.lsanca03.us.bb.gin.ntt.net

10

50

49

49

129.250.5.90

xe-0-1-0.r03.lsanca03.us.bb.gin.ntt.net

11

50

50

50

198.172.90.102

p4-1-1-0.r03.lsanca03.us.ce.gin.ntt.net

12

203

201

195

202.158.194.77

so-3-1-0.bb1.b.syd.aarnet.net.au

13

213

211

208

202.158.194.33

so-2-0-0.bb1.a.mel.aarnet.net.au

14

222

220

216

202.158.194.17

so-2-0-0.bb1.a.adl.aarnet.net.au

15

244

244

244

202.158.194.5

so-0-1-0.bb1.a.per.aarnet.net.au

16

249

244

247

202.158.198.178

gigabitethernet0.er1.curtin.cpe.aarnet.net.au

17

244

249

249

202.158.198.186

gw1.er1.curtin.cpe.aarnet.net.au

18

244

248

249

134.7.16.46

19

244

247

250

134.7.248.65

te1-1.b309-sr.net.curtin.edu.au

20

252

248

244

134.7.179.53

Trace complete

A total of 20 hops were recorded between sites.

When using the ping tools I got the following results

Ping	See if a host is reachable
domain or IP address packets to send timeout (ms) data size (bytes) ttl (hops) don't fragment
source code: view | download

Pinging curtin.edu.au [134.7.179.53] with 32 bytes of data...

Results

count

ttl (hops)

rtt (ms)

from

1

109

252

134.7.179.53

2

109

249

134.7.179.53

3

109

247

134.7.179.53

4

109

244

134.7.179.53

5

109

247

134.7.179.53

Statistics

packets	sent	5
	received	5	100%
	lost	0	0%
times (ms)	min	244
	avg	248
	max	252

-- end --
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Therefore average milliseconds are 248.

The IP NUMBER of the hostname curtin.edu.au is 134.7.179.53

In doing this exercise it makes you realise in much clearer terms just how quickly computers and the Internet work. You know in theory that the Internet is computers networked and exchanging data with each other however to see how many ip's they pass through and how quickly they do it is fascinating. The Internet is invented and ran by humans, however there is no human equivalent for such fast exchange of data.