- Don't get too hung up on the form, it more about the content.
- Write about a subject that really interests you, your more likely to keep at it.
- Get involved - look at other blogs, visit sites like Technorati, it will get you inspired for your own blogging
- Use your blog for good bloghopper :-) (don't use it as a forum to abuse others anonymously thinking you'll get away with it, more than likely it will catch up with you in the end!)
- In the end it is what you make it, it can be for family and friends or you can open it to every man and his dog, you are in control, if you want to be!!
Wednesday 28 March 2007
Module 3 Tasks - Blogging Tips
Module 3 Tasks - Blog
Here is a copy of a recent blog I started regarding my attempts to enter the property development market. I'm hoping it will help me to focus my thoughts and record what I do so I don't make the same mistake twice!!
Module 3 Tasks - FTP
Back again :-)
Finally managed to sort out the whole OASIS web host account rigmarole. It actually isn't that difficult once you sort out which FTP client to use. The recommended clients are CoreFTP and FileZilla. Tip from the wise, DO NOT use Filezilla as it simply does not work. Apparently has something to do with the Curtin Firewall, but CoreFTP, took seconds to get installed and connected to my drive. The other snag in this whole process, is that you cannot actually view your site unless you are logged in to the Curtin network, or connect from home using their VPN client. Again this was really quite a simple process in the end as the client is fully configured and does not require any configuration by the student. So on the whole I say give it a go. Saves having to organise hosting externally and give you something of a test bed! Although of course no fancy tools provided by external web hosts :-(.
So my test page has been ftp'd to my oasis web account and can be viewed at;
http://student.curtin.edu.au/~13772240/index.html
for those of you connected to the Curtin network that is ;-).
cheers Lisa
Finally managed to sort out the whole OASIS web host account rigmarole. It actually isn't that difficult once you sort out which FTP client to use. The recommended clients are CoreFTP and FileZilla. Tip from the wise, DO NOT use Filezilla as it simply does not work. Apparently has something to do with the Curtin Firewall, but CoreFTP, took seconds to get installed and connected to my drive. The other snag in this whole process, is that you cannot actually view your site unless you are logged in to the Curtin network, or connect from home using their VPN client. Again this was really quite a simple process in the end as the client is fully configured and does not require any configuration by the student. So on the whole I say give it a go. Saves having to organise hosting externally and give you something of a test bed! Although of course no fancy tools provided by external web hosts :-(.
So my test page has been ftp'd to my oasis web account and can be viewed at;
http://student.curtin.edu.au/~13772240/index.html
for those of you connected to the Curtin network that is ;-).
cheers Lisa
Tuesday 27 March 2007
Module 3 Tasks - Page validation (the never-ending saga)
This page is not Valid -//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN!
Still with the nasty messages, down to only one error though. Onward and upward :-)Powered by ScribeFire.
Module 3 Tasks - Page validation
OK so i validated index.html from the the volcano page tutorial using http://validator.w3.org/ and I failed with a big fat capital F.
The page looked okey to me, so I'm not really sure what all the fuss is about :-).
See below for a summary of results (the detailed failure report was a lot more frightening then the summary you see below!!)
Result: Failed validation, 6 errors
File: index.html
Encoding: utf-8
Doctype: -//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN
Again as this is supposed to be an educational exercise I am going to endevor to fix my heinous errors and get a clean bill of health. See you back here soon!
The page looked okey to me, so I'm not really sure what all the fuss is about :-).
See below for a summary of results (the detailed failure report was a lot more frightening then the summary you see below!!)
Result: Failed validation, 6 errors
File: index.html
Encoding: utf-8
Doctype: -//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN
Again as this is supposed to be an educational exercise I am going to endevor to fix my heinous errors and get a clean bill of health. See you back here soon!
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Module 3 Tasks - 5 most important rules for writing online
This could be considered from a lot of different angles, are we talking about design and usability or attracting people to the site, keeping them there, getting them to come back! I think the rules might really change depending on what you are writing and who you are writing it for. I guess this is a start!
Rule number 1. Understand your audience, who are you writing for. Students, parents, business people, techies, children, farmers, retirees? Perhaps they'll want larger text, less jargon, more interaction, less frills more detail.
Rule number 2. Understand your purpose, why are you writing. To educate, to amuse, to sell, to inform? All of these will lend themselves to a different style and perhaps a different format i.e. blog, website, forum, discussion board, email.
Rule number 3. More on the web design side now - Make sure your site is easy to navigate. Some sort of site map, a site search and clear navigation all things that help the visitor to your site find what they want in the shortest time possible. This guarantees they will come back again.
Rule number 4. No false advertising. Something that Nielsen(1997) refers to as 'marketese'. Make sure you are open and honest in regards to content on your site give credit where credit is due for any content that was sourced from elsewhere, and don't making any false claims, don't lower your standards just because you are writing online!
Rule number 5. My personal favourite KISS - keep it simple stupid. If you have adhered to the four rules above, then people will allready be enamored with your originality, your knack for knowing your audience your ethics and honesty, there is no need to vamp it up with a truck load of graphics, flashing icons and other weird and wonderful formatting styles (unless of course they support the message you are trying to get across in which case go for it).
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
- Philip K. Dick
Rule number 1. Understand your audience, who are you writing for. Students, parents, business people, techies, children, farmers, retirees? Perhaps they'll want larger text, less jargon, more interaction, less frills more detail.
Rule number 2. Understand your purpose, why are you writing. To educate, to amuse, to sell, to inform? All of these will lend themselves to a different style and perhaps a different format i.e. blog, website, forum, discussion board, email.
Rule number 3. More on the web design side now - Make sure your site is easy to navigate. Some sort of site map, a site search and clear navigation all things that help the visitor to your site find what they want in the shortest time possible. This guarantees they will come back again.
Rule number 4. No false advertising. Something that Nielsen(1997) refers to as 'marketese'. Make sure you are open and honest in regards to content on your site give credit where credit is due for any content that was sourced from elsewhere, and don't making any false claims, don't lower your standards just because you are writing online!
Rule number 5. My personal favourite KISS - keep it simple stupid. If you have adhered to the four rules above, then people will allready be enamored with your originality, your knack for knowing your audience your ethics and honesty, there is no need to vamp it up with a truck load of graphics, flashing icons and other weird and wonderful formatting styles (unless of course they support the message you are trying to get across in which case go for it).
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
- Philip K. Dick
Sunday 25 March 2007
Module 3 Tasks - HTML Tags
Just completed the volcano web tutorial! No issues, have not used an editor for a while to create web pages, have become slack in my old age and more accustomed to using the variety of WYSIWYG editors now available. Admittedly they can place a lot of unnecessary tags in the code, but a quick validation normally cleans that up. I'll definitely not be turning back to the text editor again at least not for HTML coding, (admittedly there is a certain sense of satisfaction to be gained from manually coding HTML!) maybe a bit of Perl or PHP!
I have loaded the complated volcano web page up to the presentations area, the address is http://webct.curtin.edu.au/305033_a/student_pres/Group40/index.html
I assume this link will work for my fellow net11'ers as long as they are already logged into WEBCT! If not just look at group40 on the presentations page.
cheers Lisa
I have loaded the complated volcano web page up to the presentations area, the address is http://webct.curtin.edu.au/305033_a/student_pres/Group40/index.html
I assume this link will work for my fellow net11'ers as long as they are already logged into WEBCT! If not just look at group40 on the presentations page.
cheers Lisa
Friday 23 March 2007
Module 3 - General
This is my first post using the Firefox Add-on ScribeFire. Looks pretty cool, it allows me to be browsing come across something interesting and publish it to my blog without opening up another browser window and logging into my blog first. I'm pretty sure it can do a lot more than that, and I'm sure I'll get more familiar with it over time.
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Module 2 Tasks - Chat
I kind of like ICQ, its small, not too flashy and over the top like MSN. We have an IM system at work, just a contacts list you right click a name and select chat, and off you go, just type and communicate; no pictures, no emoticons, no funny animated question marks or pictures appearing when you type certain combination of letters. I like that system I find it useful and less contrived. Some of the MSN stuff, seems to get in the way of real communication, instead of chatting I'm looking for cute little pictures that I can substitute instead of using words. Perhaps I just need some time, its like learning a new language, at least with the straight text chat facilities I feel a little more comfortable, but hey I'm not saying I couldn't learn to speak fluent MSN, after all my 12 year old appears to have mastered it over night
Module 2 Tasks - Newsgroups
OK I am going to admit defeat and move on, I really could not find a newsgroup that I wanted to post to. Instead I have dug up an old posting to a technical forum, yes I know not quite a newsgroup, but I believe the concept is the same and I find these forums a lot more useful than most of the newsgroups I have looked at.
| lfindlater newbie Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 2 |
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Monday 12 March 2007
Module 2 Tasks - General
I wonder if I am the only person who has a serious aversion to newsgroups? I don't know what it is , but I'm yet to find one that I could see myself becoming a regular contributor of! Most of them don't really appear to stick to topic, and they seem to be frequented by a bizarre bunch of (well I don't really no the PC term so I'll leave it there). For the sake of learning I will persevere and find myself a newsgroup that I can develop a general affinity too - but gees its hard!
Friday 9 March 2007
Module 2 Tasks - Other Infosphere Comunications
- What are the pros and cons of email lists versus discussion boards?
I think in comparing email lists to discussion boards the primary difference ( and major pro in my opinion for discussion boards ) is the interactivity. With email lists its true that you can subscribe to topics that you are interested in, but for each topic there is often a diverse range of discussion to be had, not all of which you will be particularly interested in, yet all are distributed as part of that list. I quite often find on email lists, that if I receive an email once a week, I may only come across a small 'snippet' of information that interests me say once a month. With discussion boards, I can visit narrow down my search not only to a specific topic but to a specific thread within a topic quickly finding me the required information.
Accurateness/Verifiability of the information provided
Quite often the information in email lists I have subscribed to are prepared by 'experts' in the field and come from one source, which makes it easier to verify. Discussion boards contain the opinions of a broad range of people on one particular thread, picking out the relevant/reliable sources of information can be a little more difficult.
- Are there certain kinds of communication or purposes more suited to one than the other?
I'm also quite busy and find that receiving weekly email lists from multiple services is info overload. I need to scan these just in case there is something relevant to me, which takes time. I find with discussion boards I can narrow this down a lot faster. I must admit as a techie I spend a lot of times in forums looking for answers to those weird and wonderful issues we encounter on a daily basis, email lists just would not provide me with the information in a timely or focused fashion. Quite often you don't need to wait for answer as someone else has already asked the question before you!
Tech/Security Alerts
There are email lists that are the exception to this rule (for example) tech alerts and security updates, and in this case email lists definitely have the advantage as they can be issued as soon as the problem arises. It might be disastrous if you did not find out about these things until you visited the appropriate discussion board!
Module 2 Tasks - Email Question 5
Ahhhhh - and we come to the last one.
5. How have you organised the folder structure of your email and why?
My folder structure evolves depending on what I am involved in at anyone point in time. I have a couple of standard folder like Bills, Subscriptions, Family etc, But I will add new folders when email from a certain source is going to be coming on a regular basis or a subject will involve a number of email (normally more than 2 or 3). For example I now have a folder called Uni, under that folder I have Curtin and then OUA, under the Curtin Folder I have Net11 and Net12. I usually try to organise my folders so that they can grow in a logical manner. I do believe that everyone has their own style when it comes to creating their folder structure
If I am researching something, I'll create a separate folder. We recently built a pool, so while I was getting quotes and further information from various companies I created a folder called Pool and placed all email on that subject in there. Once we had completed the whole process. I pretty much deleted the contents of that folder.
I'm also big on keeping my Inbox clear! I move things out of there as soon as I have read them, if they need actioning of some sort I'll leave them there until I have done that. Once I have actioned them, I'll delete them or move them to the relevant folder depending on their importance. It acts as a kind of todo list/reminder tool as I normally check my email every day.
5. How have you organised the folder structure of your email and why?
My folder structure evolves depending on what I am involved in at anyone point in time. I have a couple of standard folder like Bills, Subscriptions, Family etc, But I will add new folders when email from a certain source is going to be coming on a regular basis or a subject will involve a number of email (normally more than 2 or 3). For example I now have a folder called Uni, under that folder I have Curtin and then OUA, under the Curtin Folder I have Net11 and Net12. I usually try to organise my folders so that they can grow in a logical manner. I do believe that everyone has their own style when it comes to creating their folder structure
If I am researching something, I'll create a separate folder. We recently built a pool, so while I was getting quotes and further information from various companies I created a folder called Pool and placed all email on that subject in there. Once we had completed the whole process. I pretty much deleted the contents of that folder.
I'm also big on keeping my Inbox clear! I move things out of there as soon as I have read them, if they need actioning of some sort I'll leave them there until I have done that. Once I have actioned them, I'll delete them or move them to the relevant folder depending on their importance. It acts as a kind of todo list/reminder tool as I normally check my email every day.
Module 2 Tasks - Email Question 4
Yes yet another - perhaps I could have entered them all in one post, but I'm a modular girl at heart :-)
4. What sorts of filters or rules do you have set up, and for what purpose?
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
- Philip K. Dick
4. What sorts of filters or rules do you have set up, and for what purpose?
- I have McAfee Spam Filter running in outlook express, while not a filter in the traditional sense of the word it does move email to a SPAM folder if any parts of the email match a set of predetermined rules for what constitutes a spam email.
- I have folders set up for any regular incoming mail that I receive so that I can immediately file message from a particular person/organisation in the relevant folder. A lot of the regular stuff I receive are account receipts, which I don't really have to look at on a daily basis so I have my filter dump them into folder thats I can just checkout when looking at my bill paying or accounts. Also newsletters from different organisations that I might refer to every now and then.
- the rule for my Telstra bills for example looks like this
- Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the From line contains 'info@online.telstra.com.au'
Move it to the Telstra folder
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
- Philip K. Dick
Module 2 Tasks - Email Question 3
Email task questions continued - still!
3. In what ways can you ensure that an attachment you send will be easily opened by the receiver?
He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.
- Don Juan Manuel
3. In what ways can you ensure that an attachment you send will be easily opened by the receiver?
- By understanding the level of 'Net experience' your intended recipient(s) may have.
- By understanding the tools that the recipient is using both for sending and receiving email and for reading attachments
- If you cannot establish the details mentioned above, use standard formats that are recognisable on most platforms, for example save your attachment in .txt or .rtf format. or convert the document to a html page, which will allow the user to view it in a browser.
- In some cases it may be worth considering cut and pasting the relevant parts of your document directly into the email message body, if reviewing the whole document is not required.
- For more complex or important document attach a small how to guide for referencing this document e.g. attachment is best viewed with Microsoft Word. Advise the user what to do if they do not have this facility e.g. please contact me if you cannot open this document so that I can resend in another format.
- Don Juan Manuel
Module 2 Tasks - Email Question 2
Email tasks questions continued!
2. In what cases would you find it useful to use the 'cc', 'bcc' and 'reply all functions of email?
cc - If I was commenting on work/documents/suggestions made by a third party, I might want to cc that third party on the email in case they had anything to add or disagreed with my interpretation/comments regarding their work. For example I have completed a performance review for one of my staff and I am sending that through to the HR department with some comments. I may want to cc the staff member to show them I have forwarded this document on to someone else, that I have made comments about this document as it concerns them in a very personal manner.
I might also use cc if I was trying to communicate a message on behalf of a group of people, who are all interested in the response/outcome of this message. So for example I am writing a letter suggesting some improvements to the dress code at work. I have discussed this with some colleagues who supported the suggestion, so I am letting these colleagues no that this suggestion has been presented. I am also telling the recipient that the people cc'd on this message are interested in any feedback from this original message, and can be included in any response to this message.
bcc - Often a blindcopy might be used in more sensitive situations, or to protect yourself from recriminations. For example when dealing with a delicate personal situation, if the person I am emailing would feel uncomfortable with me sharing this information, but I personally felt that I needed the advice of a third party I would bcc that third party.
reply all functions - I use reply all as a form of ongoing discussion, or to encourage debate. If an email on a particular subject has been emailed to a group of people and I feel that my response to that subject may be useful, or perhaps just amusing to the other people who received the original email I would use the reply all function. In most cases I would only use this if the recipients to the original message are all familiar to me.
2. In what cases would you find it useful to use the 'cc', 'bcc' and 'reply all functions of email?
cc - If I was commenting on work/documents/suggestions made by a third party, I might want to cc that third party on the email in case they had anything to add or disagreed with my interpretation/comments regarding their work. For example I have completed a performance review for one of my staff and I am sending that through to the HR department with some comments. I may want to cc the staff member to show them I have forwarded this document on to someone else, that I have made comments about this document as it concerns them in a very personal manner.
I might also use cc if I was trying to communicate a message on behalf of a group of people, who are all interested in the response/outcome of this message. So for example I am writing a letter suggesting some improvements to the dress code at work. I have discussed this with some colleagues who supported the suggestion, so I am letting these colleagues no that this suggestion has been presented. I am also telling the recipient that the people cc'd on this message are interested in any feedback from this original message, and can be included in any response to this message.
bcc - Often a blindcopy might be used in more sensitive situations, or to protect yourself from recriminations. For example when dealing with a delicate personal situation, if the person I am emailing would feel uncomfortable with me sharing this information, but I personally felt that I needed the advice of a third party I would bcc that third party.
reply all functions - I use reply all as a form of ongoing discussion, or to encourage debate. If an email on a particular subject has been emailed to a group of people and I feel that my response to that subject may be useful, or perhaps just amusing to the other people who received the original email I would use the reply all function. In most cases I would only use this if the recipients to the original message are all familiar to me.
Module 2 Tasks - Email Question 1
Hi back again!
Have completed the Email Basics tutorial and following are responses to the questions posed as part of module 2.2 tasks for Email.
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?
To answer this question I have plucked a random email from my inbox to analyse. From this email I can gather that the email was sent from a mail server hosting the domain hbf.com.au. It appears to be an original email (i.e not a reply or a forward) as there is not indication of this in the subject or body of the email.
As I am using Outlook Express, if I go to File then select properties I can see the time that the email was sent(based on the time on his mail server) and the time it was received by my mail server(based on the time on my mail server).
By selecting File then Properties and going to the details tab I can see more information on the path that this email took by viewing the Internet Headers.
The following is a copy of the Internet Headers for the above mail message. It tells me the message was sent via the mail server mail.hbf.com.au and received by sv3.per.eftel.com.au(my ISP). Before this email was sent by mail.hbf.com.au it also passed through another server Aurilla.corp.hbf.com.au and was passed through the SurfControl E-mail Filter.
X-McAfeeVS-TimeoutProtection: 0
Return-Path:
Received: from hbf.com.au (mail.hbf.com.au [203.153.232.59])
by sv3.per.eftel.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39D9466C3D5
for; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:55:43 +0900 (WST)
Received: from Aurilla.corp.hbf.com.au [192.0.8.44] by mail.hbf.com.au - SurfControl E-mail Filter (5.5.0); Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:55:41 +0900
Subject: D-Link stuff
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 7.0 August 18, 2005
Message-ID:
From:
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:55:40 +0900
X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on HBFMail1/HBF(Release 6.5.4FP1|June 19, 2005) at 09/02/2007
11:55:42 AM,
Serialize complete at 09/02/2007 11:55:42 AM
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_alternative 00101556C825727D_="
To:
X-SEF-7853D99-ADF1-478E-8894-213D316B8FFA: 1
X-SEF-Processed: 5_5_0_191__2007_02_09_11_55_43
X-MSK: FRND
Have completed the Email Basics tutorial and following are responses to the questions posed as part of module 2.2 tasks for Email.
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?
To answer this question I have plucked a random email from my inbox to analyse. From this email I can gather that the email was sent from a mail server hosting the domain hbf.com.au. It appears to be an original email (i.e not a reply or a forward) as there is not indication of this in the subject or body of the email.
As I am using Outlook Express, if I go to File then select properties I can see the time that the email was sent(based on the time on his mail server) and the time it was received by my mail server(based on the time on my mail server).
By selecting File then Properties and going to the details tab I can see more information on the path that this email took by viewing the Internet Headers.
The following is a copy of the Internet Headers for the above mail message. It tells me the message was sent via the mail server mail.hbf.com.au and received by sv3.per.eftel.com.au(my ISP). Before this email was sent by mail.hbf.com.au it also passed through another server Aurilla.corp.hbf.com.au and was passed through the SurfControl E-mail Filter.
X-McAfeeVS-TimeoutProtection: 0
Return-Path:
Received: from hbf.com.au (mail.hbf.com.au [203.153.232.59])
by sv3.per.eftel.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39D9466C3D5
for
Received: from Aurilla.corp.hbf.com.au [192.0.8.44] by mail.hbf.com.au - SurfControl E-mail Filter (5.5.0); Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:55:41 +0900
Subject: D-Link stuff
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 7.0 August 18, 2005
Message-ID:
From:
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:55:40 +0900
X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on HBFMail1/HBF(Release 6.5.4FP1|June 19, 2005) at 09/02/2007
11:55:42 AM,
Serialize complete at 09/02/2007 11:55:42 AM
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_alternative 00101556C825727D_="
To:
X-SEF-7853D99-ADF1-478E-8894-213D316B8FFA: 1
X-SEF-Processed: 5_5_0_191__2007_02_09_11_55_43
X-MSK: FRND
Sunday 4 March 2007
Have I been busy!!
In the spirit of online learning I have madly been trying to decide on a way of organising my notes and studying that takes me away from my traditional method of pen and paper.
It has been a hard grind not made easier by the amount of options out there.
I have added in Firefox add ons such as Scrapbook, which allows you to capture web pages and then edit them make notes and attach to various sections of the website and classify them by placing a folder structure designed to suit. I have personalised my Google homepage to include all sorts of productivity/time management tools (calenders, todo's, spell checker, dictionary etc). I have started using this nifty little utility called Google Notebooks, It allows you to take notes while reading the contents of a browser, you can then save and organise your notes into sections. I've also registered for Google Docs and Spreadsheet. (gees I always loved google for searching but I had no concept of all the other options out there!!)
I guess the added beauty of studying totally online is the transportability of it. I can login from work, from home, from an internet cafe, and all my study materials are accessible. I don't know exactly where this course (by course I mean the BA in Internet Studies) will lead me, but I do know that it has already made me into a more avid user of the Net. Before this, I was technically proficient(given my role as web admin, I had to be), but I really did not understand what it meant to be an 'Advanced Internet user'.
It has been a hard grind not made easier by the amount of options out there.
I have added in Firefox add ons such as Scrapbook, which allows you to capture web pages and then edit them make notes and attach to various sections of the website and classify them by placing a folder structure designed to suit. I have personalised my Google homepage to include all sorts of productivity/time management tools (calenders, todo's, spell checker, dictionary etc). I have started using this nifty little utility called Google Notebooks, It allows you to take notes while reading the contents of a browser, you can then save and organise your notes into sections. I've also registered for Google Docs and Spreadsheet. (gees I always loved google for searching but I had no concept of all the other options out there!!)
I guess the added beauty of studying totally online is the transportability of it. I can login from work, from home, from an internet cafe, and all my study materials are accessible. I don't know exactly where this course (by course I mean the BA in Internet Studies) will lead me, but I do know that it has already made me into a more avid user of the Net. Before this, I was technically proficient(given my role as web admin, I had to be), but I really did not understand what it meant to be an 'Advanced Internet user'.
Friday 2 March 2007
Module 1 Task - Traceroute Compare
Now that I have tracert working on my desktop, I can compare that with the one performed using the nwtools.com website. As expected the results just confirm that in terms of hops I am closer to the curtin server than the nwtools server is. I'd have to put that down to the fact that I am in Perth where as Nwtools is in the US.
As an excercise I thought I would try to confirm the physical location of Nwtools.com. The net can be a confusing place, you can't necessarily tell by a domain or even a sites business where a website is actually physically hosted. I went on a bit of a Net search spree and have recorded my journey as best I can here
First stop InterNic.net
The InterNIC website is operated by ICANN to provide the public information regarding Internet domain name registration services. (http://www.icann.org/faq/#WhatisInternic)
Some interesting reading and I find out how there are a set of organisations that control IP address allocation for different regions throughout the world.
From there I was able to do a domain name whois query http://www.internic.net/whois.html
and get the nameserver ( a name server pretty much tells people what IP address to use for your domain) for nwtools.com. The nameserver was NS.KEYWORDFACTORY.COM. the ip address was 66.98.244.116.
Next stop http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space this tells me that the 66 address space is controlled by ARIN (66/8 Jul 00 ARIN (whois.arin.net) (American Registry for Internet Numbers). As they control th allocation of IP address in the North American Region, I safely say that nwtools.com is hosted on a server located somewhere in North America. I guess I could go a bit deeper, but that will do for now!
As an excercise I thought I would try to confirm the physical location of Nwtools.com. The net can be a confusing place, you can't necessarily tell by a domain or even a sites business where a website is actually physically hosted. I went on a bit of a Net search spree and have recorded my journey as best I can here
First stop InterNic.net
The InterNIC website is operated by ICANN to provide the public information regarding Internet domain name registration services. (http://www.icann.org/faq/#WhatisInternic)
Some interesting reading and I find out how there are a set of organisations that control IP address allocation for different regions throughout the world.
From there I was able to do a domain name whois query http://www.internic.net/whois.html
and get the nameserver ( a name server pretty much tells people what IP address to use for your domain) for nwtools.com. The nameserver was NS.KEYWORDFACTORY.COM. the ip address was 66.98.244.116.
Next stop http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space this tells me that the 66 address space is controlled by ARIN (66/8 Jul 00 ARIN (whois.arin.net) (American Registry for Internet Numbers). As they control th allocation of IP address in the North American Region, I safely say that nwtools.com is hosted on a server located somewhere in North America. I guess I could go a bit deeper, but that will do for now!
Module 1 Task - Tracert locally cont..
Well worked it out had a feeling it was my new ADSL router firewall settings, so I just played around with the settings until one of them worked (yes I have been called a cowboy in the past!). So removing the ICMP redirection checking from the firewall settings allowed me to run the tracert command from my desktop. The results are below.
Normally I would leave it at that, after all it worked didn't it. However in the spirit of learning I dedcided to go that one step further and find out why disabling this setting fixed my initial problem (oh and there was a slight after thought that perhaps disabling that setting was a security risk being a firewall and all ;-).
So a quick search in google for ICMP redirection checking, immediately gave me the result I was looking for, so to all you out there with a D-Link DSL-G604T, you may want to check out the following post http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/408681.html
Normally I would leave it at that, after all it worked didn't it. However in the spirit of learning I dedcided to go that one step further and find out why disabling this setting fixed my initial problem (oh and there was a slight after thought that perhaps disabling that setting was a security risk being a firewall and all ;-).
So a quick search in google for ICMP redirection checking, immediately gave me the result I was looking for, so to all you out there with a D-Link DSL-G604T, you may want to check out the following post http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/408681.html
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