How Request Travels..?!!

Hi guys

Have you ever thought how your request will travel to the server.

Actually when some request has been given from the client, the request will travel many intermediate nodes.

To know what are the intermediate nodes your request has traveled or will travel you can use the command

"tracert"

tracert -> trace route

this command will trace the route of the request that is being given from the client.

i have showed an example below how the request reaches google web page from my system


Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Users\PRAVEEN>tracert www.google.co.in

Tracing route to www.google.co.in [74.125.236.56]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    62 ms    74 ms    87 ms  220.224.141.145
  2    87 ms    58 ms    53 ms  115.255.236.89
  3    64 ms    55 ms    67 ms  124.124.239.189
  4   113 ms    97 ms   106 ms  115.255.239.45
  5    90 ms    94 ms    97 ms  72.14.212.118
  6   114 ms    93 ms    90 ms  209.85.241.52
  7   130 ms   123 ms   123 ms  209.85.251.95
  8   118 ms   145 ms   364 ms  209.85.241.33
  9   117 ms   140 ms   126 ms  maa03s04-in-f24.1e100.net [74.125.236.56]

Trace complete.

C:\Users\PRAVEEN>

For example if the request takes 9 nodes to reach the server, we call it has 9 hops.

Execute the above command and know how your request travels

Have a great week..!!

Praveen Kumar Rajendran
CollabNet Software Private Limited,Chennai

Updates Web April 21, 2013