How does an email travel down the digital lines?

                                                            

 

 

  

 

 

Exercise How does an email travel down the digital lines?

PowerPoint

  1. Find and open Power Point
  2. Make as many slides as you wish on the following subject:
  3. Subject: “How an email travels down the digital lines”
  4. Facts: Every computer that logs on to the Internet gets an internet protocol (i.p)  address
  5. An i.p. address has 4 sections with three numbers for example 131.94.114.99
  6. 131.94 belongs to FIU
  7. 114 belongs to the labs in BA 150
  8. 99 belongs to the computer being used
  9. When an email leaves the computer with a destination somewhere in Germany, it passes through the modem and has an i.p address. When the email arrives at the other end it can be traced back from Germany to FIU BA 150
  10. The email starts in digital format in your computer.
  11. It is then converted to analog as it passes through the modem because it has to travel down the analog telephone lines. After it leaves the modem, it arrives at the Central Office (C.O.) of the telephone company.
  12. It is then converted back to digital to travel down the digital lines (mainly fiber optics today)
  13. The reverse process occurs upon arrival  
  14. If you wish to see the ip address of an email that has arrived in your hotmail account here is what to do:
  15. Open your hotmail account
  16. Open an email for example this one

 

From : 

 

"ROBOS DIMITRIS" <dimrobos@otenet.gr>

 

 

To : 

 

"GERARD KLONARIDES" <gklon@hotmail.com>

 

 

Date : 

 

Sun, 18 Aug 2002 02:05:05 +0300

 

 

 

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  1. Now go to OPTIONS
  2. Go to ADDITIONAL MAIL OPTIONS
  3. MAIL DISPLAY SETTINGS
  4. Click on ADVANCED for message headers
  5. Click OK
  6. Back to inbox
  7. Open the same email
  1.  

ROBOS DIMITRIS" <dimrobos@otenet.gr>

 

 

 

To :  "GERARD KLONARIDES" <gklon@hotmail.com>

 

 

Date :  Sun, 18 Aug 2002 02:05:05 +0300

 

 

 

  

MIME-Version: 1.0
Received: from newserv.otenet.gr ([195.170.0.12]) by mc1-f9.law16.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); Sat, 17 Aug 2002 15:45:57 -0700
Received: from oemcomputer (athe530-j193.otenet.gr [212.205.245.193])by newserv.otenet.gr (8.12.4/8.12.4) with SMTP id g7HMjsib001091for <gklon@hotmail.com>; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 01:45:55 +0300 (EEST)
Message-ID: <001101c24642$876f4f40$c1f5cdd4@oemcomputer>
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400
Disposition-Notification-To: "ROBOS DIMITRIS" <dimrobos@otenet.gr>
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400
Return-Path: dimrobos@otenet.gr
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Aug 2002 22:45:57.0775 (UTC) FILETIME=[DA3781F0:01C2463F]

 

  

View E-mail Message Source

 

  1. You will notice the difference of size of the header
  2. The i.p. address of the person sending the email is 195.170.0.12 and it comes from an Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Greece
  3. If you would like to trace this i.p. address here is what to do
  4. Connect to the internet
  5. Go to the DOS prompt
  6. Type in tracert 195.170.0.12 and hit enter
  7. You will see it commence a trace backwards from your computers i.p. address to the one in Greece
  8. There is software you can download and purchase or use for 30 day trail period
  9. Try www.visualroute.com
  10. or search in www.google.com  for other software.

 

 

 

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