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'''Exercise:''' Use a Geo-IP traceroute tool (http://traceroute.monitis.com/ ) to view how your connection is routed to a particular website.
'' '''Note:''' The Internet is a packet-switching network. This means that your email, for example, is broken down into small individual packets which are then sent independently of each other along the many possible routes on the network that connect you to your friend's computer. These packets are then reassembled at the receiver's end to re-create your email. Important! You do not control how data travels through the Internet once you hit the send button.''
=Locate=
* Not knowing the LiveJournal address, you open Google naturally. Your computer doesn't know where www.google.com is and so asks the DNS server for Google's IP.* Using Google's IP you locate the search engine and punch in 'LiveJournal'. The search returns www.livejournal.com which you promptly click.* Once again, your computer has no idea where to locate www.livejournal.com and returns to the DNS server to get its IP.* Finally, using the correct IP you can access LiveJournal's website.
'''Media:''' A brief explanation how websites are located using the DNS.
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Another video that discusses the regulative and technical framework behind DNS and why this is important.
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