Tracing the route of an email

When you receive an email, it has the sender's ip address and the receivers ip address.

Now, if you had a meeting with a business associate and you receive an email stating that he/she is temporarily stuck in Chicago, you can trace the route of this email. If it originates from Chicago, then you have just verified that the reason that he/she is giving you seems credible. If however, you trace the email to Jamaica, then Houston we have a problem.

Download the following program from the internet

http://www.visualware.com/visualroute/index.html

 Set it up at your computer

When the trial version (6.0) is open type in www.ferrari.com in the address line

You will see that the trace has started in Miami and ended in Milan.

Smooth , huh? You can use Visualroute to

• Quickly analyze and identify the source of Internet connectivity problems
• Identify the geographical location of an IP address
• Identify the source of Spam email
• Troubleshoot email problems
• Provide students with an visual tool to help demonstrate how the Internet works

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