Internet Tools

I used the Central Ops.net website to perform the Traceroute to curtin.edu.au required for this task. Here is the results:
Tracing route to curtin.edu.au [134.7.179.53]…

File Transer Protocol (FTP)

For this task I didn’t use a dedicated FTP client, instead I did it through my Firefox browsers by typing “ftp://recall.curtin.edu.au” into the address bar. As this would be an anonymous connection I didn’t need a user name or password. If a username and password is required I would just use the following in the [...]

Task B

For this task I connected via telnet to “towel.blinkenlights.nl” and was delighted to see a text based version of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope! This is a dream come true for a geek like me Although it did end just after they rescue Princes Leia, I’ll have to check back to [...]

Task A

My first task was to telnet to the Deakin library database. I’m already quite familiar with using telnet as I use it at work where our national database is on a Unix system that staff access using a Telnet client called “PowerTerm”, however at work it is already configured to connect, all staff have to [...]