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!
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