I have been doing my assignment when I started 15th December 08, however, I didn't know that every time I open up my weblog, I have to create a new blog instead of edit blog and then save. I mean this is not the 2nd time I open up my Blog Ok people. Thanks.
Email Task
I have to say that I have been using Email for almost 10 yrs now. I started using the former yahoo email called "rocketmail and it was cool. Then, I have to move my email to the free yahoo account. Now, I have my own website and doing my own computer repair business here in sydney. What I can say is that there is not much changes in email. I remember when I had a problem with my ebay account and ebay needs to do their own investigation, I need to forward all the email transaction to them with the header details included.
Now, I have to answer these reflective questions and needs to record them into my Learning Log.
1. What information about a user's email, the origin of a message, and the path it took, can you glean from an email message? In regards to this question, I think I need to conduct a reverse email lookup search by enabling the email header and email address. I am going to use my yahoo account which is joshrhinbenj@yahoo.com.
I have to log on to my email account and start enabling my full email header.
Now, I have to click on one of the messages.
And then, click on Full Headers on the lower right side of the screen and that's it.
This blog is an assessment requirement for NET11 which I am studying at Curtin University via Open University Australia. It is a Learning Log and all posts will be entitled with the related topics from that unit. Right now, I need to make a log in regards to my very first learning log which is about TelNet.
TASK A
As soon as I copy paste telnet://library.deakin.edu.au into my Web Browser, I got a message saying, What kind of terminal are you using? VT100 or NCSA VT100. I found out that whichever I chose will have the same result. Anyway, what I learned about TelNet is that it is a user command and an underlying TCP/IPprotocol for accessing remote computers. Through Telnet, an administrator or another user can access someone else's computer remotely. This looks very old because it is a Dos based application. I think, the equivalent of this in today's operating system is the one called RDP or Remote Desktop.
Yeah, Looks like I got the email print straight on my email address.
TASK B
The Star Wars is good, except for a bit of a Dos type animation. It is not really attractive now a days because they wont get your attraction. However, during the 80's, I think this is really big. Doing a programming stuff based on DOS like Turbo Pascal and Turbo Basic. Also doing a Dos batch file like autoexec.bat.
File Transer Protocol (FTP)
is a standard Internet protocol, is the simplest way to exchange files between computers on the Internet.
Task Involve:
1. Download Filezilla
2. I have to ftp to recall.curtin.edu.au and will use anonymous login.
3. Look at the directory structure.
4. Find the file called README 5. Then, download the file, look at it and answer the following question "according to the readme file, '_______ MATTERS' - what word goes in the blank?".
Now, I've already downloaded Filezilla and is now connected to recall.curtin.edu.au using anonymous login. The directory structure is like this:
The directory structure goes like this, I can see the very root directory with a question mark on it. Then I have the directory called Anonymous, under Anonymous I got 3 folders and one file. The names of the folders are as follows:
ED 423 Programs
MSC
Rob
The one file in there is called test.txt
Now, I have to find the filename called README . Found it and the answer to the question is Capitalization matters.
I actually done some ftp using core ftp. I found it more user friendly compared to Filezilla. Also, I noticed that since my Web Host is Linux based which is a some sort of a Unix clone, whenever I make mistake on the letters weather it will be lower case or capital, it will create problem. That is why Capitalization Matters.
INTERNET TOOLS
traceroute is actually a Unix command. Under Microsoft Windows, the traceroute command has been renamed `tracert` and are designed to accomplish the same task, but differ in the way they display output, in the way they send test packets, and in the number of command line options they provide.
I am using a website called http://visualroute.visualware.com/ and it was awesome. I tried trace routing curtin.edu.au and here is the result.
Based on the Summary of this website, there are 22 hops and the average response time is 154 ms.
I also tried using the windows Dos Prompt to do a traceroute via tracert and guess what? I got a different result.
The reason could be because the tracing of the route is from my PC going to curtin.edu.au where as the other one is from visual route website going to curtin.edu.au which would take more hops simply because it is coming from overseas. By the way, my Internet provider is iinet. The IP address of curtin.edu.au is 134.7.179.53. Here is the result using http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=trace&host=curtin.edu.au.
What I noticed is that I got smaller number of hops when I traceroute from my computer compared to external websites and the reason is so simple. My internet provider is locally and therfore would take much quicker or smaller hops to perform compared to when it is an external website or overseas website. The only thing I couldn't understand is that using the Dos Prompt, I got a couple of request time out error message.
Thanks.
