Question

Visit a website (which is not in Taiwan) and use the traceroute tool to record the path. How many routers traversed to that website?

Please capture your running result as the example

Answer 1

Hey. This is a tricky kind of question. Please don't submit my screenshot as your assignment. You'll be caught by your professor. I believe you are from Taiwan. When you use the "traceroute" tool, from your terminal to visit a website, it will show the route through which it is travelling to reach the destination.

Its something like, if you start from your home, to your university, and if you are asked to trace all the junctions you visit enroute, you are supposed to start your own journey. If you submit the details of others journey, it reveals that you didn't did your work. Its some others. So, please run the same command on your own machine, or some other machine around you, and try to run the command:

$traceroute some_website

As I did in my example:

$traceroute www.edx.org

And wait till this instruction terminates. The serial number on the left will show the total number of servers it has traversed through. You can simply capture your screenshot, and submit it to your professor.