Computer Science IT 505 Assignment 9


You should have two websites for  questions 1,2,3  and 4

Website 1 :

Your favorite web site  overseas and preferably NOT English Language. And its short description. The URL must have the country extension.

Example of websites with county extension

www.——–.ac.in             : Website in India

Do your web search and the find the website that you want to use.   And provide the screenshot the first page of your website.

Website 2:

Your favorite web site in the USA preferably English Language (it can be sports team, car manufacture, fashion, music band, restaurant or your favorite person’s website or something similar).  And provide the screenshot the fist page of your website.

Have these two websites for the following questions.

QUESTION 1:

Using  Whois domain lookup to see the ownership and tenure of a domain name.

https://www.whois.com/whois

And provide the report of each website by providing  for each website.

  • Registrant Contact Name and City:
  • Registered On and Expires On:

QUESTION 2:

Open the MS command prompt on your computer and do     ping to your two websites one by one. And, provide the screenshots. Answer the following questions for each website.

For example C:\Users\myComputer > ping  www.Your Favorite Website.com

  • How many packets were sent?
  • How many packets were received?
  • Approximate time of round trip
  • TTL ( allocated time to live for the package ) for each website

( get the screenshot of the PING report for both  and paste them on this MS word)

QUESTION 3:

Windows-based system, use the command prompt and execute tracert and the URL of the two websites that you have declared. tracert will be displaying the route and measuring transit delays of packets across Internet.

For example C:\Users\myComputer > tracert www.Your Favorite Website.com

Compare both results by identifying all intermediate hops between the nodes for each URL.

Write the number stops (hops) achieved for each website. Which one has more hops ? Why?

QUESTION 4:

Open the command prompt and for each web site do nslookup (name space lookup)

nslookup allows you to query the D N S database from any computer on a network.

  1. a) Do nslookup form your computer command line to find the IP address of the web sever of the two websites

Example C:\Users\myComputer > nslookup  www.Your Favorite Website.com. And,

Use https://www.ipvoid.com/find-website-ip/  to Find the IP address of  the web sever of the two websites  Compare the  Ip addresses you have gathered form nslookup and ipvoid.com  for the same website.

  1. b) Then use https://www.iplocation.net/ to see location  of a website.  And provide short report on; country, region and city of each websites’ server location (for each website)

QUESTION 5:

Use the undersea fiber optic cable map (https://www.submarinecablemap.com/) and answer the following questions.

  1. Find the Caucasus Cable System on the undersea fiber optic cable map. And visit the owner of the cable and see what kind of products they offer.
  2. Select a fiber line between USA and Japan and provide the following

Ready for service date (RFS):

Cable Length:

Owners:

URL:

Landing Points ( the main ones )

And copy/past the screenshot of cable map here. Us can use Snipping tool.