Follow the route of a packet from your desktop or laptop to a nearby server you often use, probably at school or work. To do this, you use the “tracert” keyboard command on Windows and the...

Follow the route of a packet from your desktop or laptop to a nearby server you often use, probably at school or work. To do this, you use the “tracert” keyboard command on Windows and the “traceroute” keyboard command on Unix-like systems. The command has one argument: the host’s name or IP address. Answer the following questions:

a. Copy and paste the text printed out by the traceroute command.

b. How many “hops” did the packet take?

c. Did all hops provide an IP address? Some servers don’t respond to traceroute requests.

d. Examine any readable host names provided for intermediate hops. Do any indicate that the packet took a surprising and possibly long route to reach the destination? If so, identify the distant hops it took.