Hostname Investigation

The physical address of my laptop is 00-d0-03-d6-3c-2d.The IP address assigned to my connection is 152.19.254.6, and the subnet mask assigned to my connection is 255.255.248.0. The IP address falls within class B. My default gateway is 152.19.248.1. The DNS server is ns3.oit.unc.edu.

I investigated the hostname of www.iub.edu, the website for Indiana University. The IP addresses for the website are 129.79.78.21 and 129.79.78.20. There were 15 hops in the route from my computer to the IU website. The route is as follows:

152.19.248.1 (my computer)
ciscokid.net.unc.edu
gsr-12000.internet.unc.edu
rlgh1-gw-to-ncni-oc48.ncren.net
abilene-gw.ncni.net
198.32.11.126
nycmng-washng.abilene.ucaid.edu
chinng-nycmng.abilene.ucaid.edu
iplsng-chinng.abilene.ucaid.edu
ipls-iplsng.abilene.ucaid.edu
ul-abilene.indiana.gigapop.net
sd-ul.indiana.gigapop.net
(Request timed out)
wcc6-gw.ucs.indiana.edu
www.iub.edu

The average network response time was 58 ms.


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Last updated October 3, 2002.