Net 11 Module One Task B

 

Task B 

 

Telnet

The next task involved establishing a connection to towel.blinkinlights.nl via telnet.

Being a user of telnet this was just usual opening up a telnet connection, to my surprise this is what appeared.

Totally amazed that someone had spent so much time and also effort at putting such a great show forward in such a manner via a older method of online application, the person who wrote this really deserves a prize, without going into great detail, after logging in you were treated to some messages about the creation of the picture then it moved onto Star Wars via Ascii pictures, a very old way that is so similar to local bulletin board services used to be run when you would log into them.

In Summary :-

Telnet is a prime example of a excellent data application that would allow you to perform remote tasks on a distant machine or web server via giving you access via a username or password.

Telnet also has a creativity level that is not often seen on the Internet of today by allowing people to create such epic show as “Star Wars” via ascii creations.

We have come past ascii creations and moved on into the realm of digital creations on the Web, kinda reminds me of what is happening with our televisions going from a early stage of (BW) Black and White and now into (HD) High Definition.

Ascii Creations I originally encountered on BBS, Bulletin Board Services as means of  artistic manner,  your would dial into the service and the owner would have a picture on the main login page, then the first menu.

I never realized that they actually had a orgin over time into further studying articles on wikipedia to develop a true understanding towards them.

But the fact remains that some older applications may become redundant to some users, but not all users of the Internet.

Ftp

 

Due to the largness of the file and my screen, In order to view this file in full definition, you need to click on vimeo and then if you wish to expand the video file click on  then click on play.

With being a novice I am still learning the ropes and different aspects of bloggin daily and developing my skills as I learn these modules, the answer listed on the blog is lower definition but clearly states the same process as below.

I used WS_FTP version 6, I then logged into ftp to recall.curtin.edu.au and used as suggested the anonymous login. I downloaded the readme file and obtained the missing word in the following phrase “according to the readme file, ‘_______ MATTERS’ – what word goes in the blank?”.

“Capitilization Matters”

 

Internet Tools

 

Traceroute

Traceroute is a excellent application that can establish if your Internet session is having some issues within your route, some routers along the way to you, maybe not functioning correctly, this application can show you how bad the situation is.

We were asked then to use two sites, I picked out http://network- tools.com/ and then did a traceroute back to curtin.edu.au.

 How many hops are there?

Their were 18 hops with the last hop being curtin’s server, the ping fluctuated from 260ms to 282ms once leaving the United States, as greater the distance the more the ping develops over distance.

The last IP is that of the curtin.edu.au address 134.7.179.53

Ping

I was then asked to ping webct.curtin.edu.au 134.7.180.156

The result was less, due to the lesser the distance travelled and less amount of hops involved with the travel.

Tracert

I then completed the Vista Application Tracert to curtin.edu.au.

 

 

The sort of differences that you can observe are that since the distance is lesser the ping will be much more precise. As over distance ping increases from the original host as it has variety of routers to go threw in order to reach it’s target machine.

The difference between the early traceroute and this is that the machine was located in the United States therefore the ping will be greater over distance.  My machine is located in Brisbane Queensland Australia, therefore the ping to the curtain.edu.au machine would be a great deal less as the distance involved is a lot less to that of the United States.

There are lesser hops involved and more direct route would be used to the curtain campus than what is from the United States to the curtin.edu.au site.

Most important element of traceroute is that ping increases over the greater the distance from you to the machine you are tracing to.