NetworkToolsLab
Exploring Network Tools
Assigned Date: Monday, October 21, 2019
Due Date: 11:59 pm, Sunday, October 27, 2019
For this assignment, you will be using the network tools mentioned in class today to answer a few questions:
What is the IP address of the champlain.edu web server?
Where is the web server located?
Lab Submission
For this lab, you will be submitting several screenshots to Canvas and answering a question regarding the whereabouts of Champlain College’s web server (the submissions items are bolded in the lab below). The most efficient way to submit these is to create a Word document that contains all four requested submissions and submitting that document.
Part 1: nslookup
Click on the magnifying glass in the Windows taskbar and type ‘cmd’. Open the Command Prompt application that pops up.
Type into the command prompt window ‘nslookup champlain.edu’. Take a screenshot of the output of the program. This IP address shown in the ‘Non-authoritative answer’ portion is Champlain’s web server.
Part 2: Ping
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, and take a screenshot of the results.
Part 3: Tracert (Where in the world in Champlain’s web server?)
Now, type ‘tracert x.x.x.x’ in your command prompt, replacing x.x.x.x with the Champlain.edu IP you found in Part 1. Let the program run to completion, and take a screenshot of the results.
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!) and answer the following question: Based on this information, where do you think the Champlain.edu web server lives?
What To Submit
nslookup screenshot from Step 2 ● Answer to question from Step 5
ping screenshot from Step 3
tracert screenshot from Step 4
Last updated
