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Traceroute

Week 2

Websites used:

  • amazon.com

  • amazon.in

  • spotify.com

  • trivago.com

  • An ITP Printer

  • carolinenivetha.com (my portfolio)

  • flipkart.com (Indian e-commerce website)

  • drive.google.com

Traceroute exercise

I first tried amazon.com and amazon.in because I was curious to see if there would be a difference in the traceroute results for 2 different countries. 

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I only got the IP addresses for the first few hops and the rest were always stars for all my traceroute exercises. 

When comparing the traceroute results from different locations, I realized that only the last part of the IP address changed and the route (cities) mostly remained the same. In some cases, the number of hops varied.

I tried looking into why this happens and found that it might vary because I'm connecting to different ISPs from the floor and home. 

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For amazon.in, it went through Jersey and London in addition to New York

Another thing I noticed in all the traceroute results was that the first one always returned bogon/null for me. I wonder why that is?

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I was able to reach Spotify from both the floor and my home

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I was able to reach google from the floor. I'm not sure if it did from my home but the query stopped in 10 hops. I ran traceroute again for google drive from home to check again and found that some parts of the path remained the same and IP addresses changed.

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Traceroute results for the ITP printer. I was curios to see what the path would be like to connect to a device inside the same physical space. Interestingly, the path from my home and the floor seemed to be similar. 

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