Week 9 Lab 1: Exploring Network Tools - FlameSpyro/Tech-Journal GitHub Wiki

Assignment: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PAE3Fc22RGM0R4Lr31AV46lyGna7axH9KEvDW5o-a40/edit#

nslookup

  1. Click on the magnifying glass in the Windows taskbar and type ‘cmd’. Open the Command Prompt application that pops up.

  2. The command nslookup is used to find the IP address of a host and the hostname for an IP address.

  3. Type into the command prompt window: nslookup champlain.edu

The IP address shown in the ‘Non-authoritative answer’ portion is Champlain’s web server next to “Addresses”

Copy the output to your GitHub submission and put asterisks next to the IP Address(es)

C:\Users\ericb>nslookup champlain.edu
Server:  dc1.cyber.local
Address:  192.168.4.4

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    champlain.edu
**Address:  208.115.107.132

Ping

  1. Type ping x.x.x.x into your command prompt, replacing x.x.x.x with the Champlain.edu IP address you found in Part 1. Let the program run to completion.

Copy the output to your GitHub submission and put asterisks next to the IP Address(es).

C:\Users\ericb>ping 208.155.107.132

Pinging 208.155.107.132 with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 208.155.107.132:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

tracert

  1. Type tracert -d www.champlain.edu in your command prompt. The switch -d will not resolve hostnames so it runs faster. Let the program run to completion, and copy the output into your GitHub lab submission

mentioned in class today Tracert shows you the path your network traffic takes from your machine to champlain.edu. Analyze the path that tracert returned (take note of the names/IPs returned from each hop in the route!)

How many hops did it take to get to the web server hosting www.champlain.edu?

It took 16 hops to get to the web server
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