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Computer Science Practice Worksheet

The document discusses the internet, wide area networks (WANs), IP addresses, domain name servers (DNS), and routing of data packets. It contains tasks for students to look up IP addresses and domain names using a DNS lookup service, trace packet routes using a traceroute tool to analyze routing between locations like London and a school website, and identify true/false statements about networking concepts like protocols, routers, and the job of DNS servers.

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Computer Science Practice Worksheet

The document discusses the internet, wide area networks (WANs), IP addresses, domain name servers (DNS), and routing of data packets. It contains tasks for students to look up IP addresses and domain names using a DNS lookup service, trace packet routes using a traceroute tool to analyze routing between locations like London and a school website, and identify true/false statements about networking concepts like protocols, routers, and the job of DNS servers.

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Worksheet 1 The Internet and WANs

Unit 3 Networks, connections and protocols

Name:...................................................................................................... Class: ......................

Task 1
All web addresses (URLs) have a corresponding IP address, held on a domain name server
(DNS).
Use a website such as https://www.ipaddressguide.com/ping to find out the missing IP
addresses and domain names, and where the domain name server is located.

Domain name or
IP address Location
Host name

www.google.co.uk 172.217.164.131 California

(Your school website) 23.236.62.147 Iowa

www.amazon.co.uk 54.239.34.171 Ireland

nhm.ac.uk 20.108.76.200 London

Another website of your


45.56.79.167 Texas
choice

Your school’s public IP


address
(search ‘what is my IP 62.253.196.130 Bartley Green
address’)

Your computer’s internal


network IP address

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Worksheet 1 The Internet and WANs
Unit 3 Networks, connections and protocols

Task 2
To retrieve data from a web server, the packets of data must often travel through many
routers.

It is possible to trace the routers that packets go through to reach an IP address or domain
name. This is known as a traceroute.

Go to: https://www.uptrends.com/tools/traceroute or search for another traceroute service. If


you have access to a command prompt then you can carry this out from your computer with
the command tracert (Windows) or traceroute (Linux/Mac).

Find the route from London (if using the website) or your computer (if using the command
prompt) to the following domain names.

Domain name or
IP addresses Locations
Host name
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
www.google.co.uk 7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
(Your school website) 7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.

*Be aware that some routers or servers may not respond to requests. This usually indicates
that a firewall is in place.

Extension: Find the locations of the IP addresses on one route you have found using:
https://iplocation.com/

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Worksheet 1 The Internet and WANs
Unit 3 Networks, connections and protocols

Task 3

True False
Every device in the world connected to the Internet has an IP
./
address

All the packets in a data transmission are the same length ./

Packets travel by different routes and may arrive out of


./
sequence at their destination

A protocol is an error checking procedure ./

A PC must connect to a router to access the Internet ./

The DNS server translates a website address into the MAC


./
address of the host computer
There is only one DNS server, and it holds all the website
./
addresses in the world
The job of a router is to read the address on a data packet and
./
send it on its way via the best route to its destination

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