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The document provides information about IP addresses, DNS servers, and DNS fundamentals. It records the IP address 192.0.32.7 for www.icann.org and explains why entering this in binary format does not work in a browser. It notes that pinging www.cisco.com will return different IP addresses depending on location due to Cisco's use of mirror servers. It identifies IPv6 addresses associated with www.cisco.com and lists the mail server aer-mx-01.cisco.com that would be contacted first for cisco.com emails due to its lowest MX preference. Finally, it states that the fundamental purpose of DNS is to translate names to numbers (IPv4 or IPv6 addresses)

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The document provides information about IP addresses, DNS servers, and DNS fundamentals. It records the IP address 192.0.32.7 for www.icann.org and explains why entering this in binary format does not work in a browser. It notes that pinging www.cisco.com will return different IP addresses depending on location due to Cisco's use of mirror servers. It identifies IPv6 addresses associated with www.cisco.com and lists the mail server aer-mx-01.cisco.com that would be contacted first for cisco.com emails due to its lowest MX preference. Finally, it states that the fundamental purpose of DNS is to translate names to numbers (IPv4 or IPv6 addresses)

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Lab 15.4.

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Part 1
Record the IP addresses for www.icann.org 192.0.32.7

The Base 10 IP address 192.0.32.7 in Base 2 numbers is


11000000.00000000.00100000.00000111. What happens if you cut and paste these Base 2
numbers into a browser?
The web site does not display. The software code used in web browsers recognizes Base 10
numbers. It does not recognize Base 2 numbers.
When you ping www.cisco.com, do you get the same IP address as the example?
Explain.
Answer will vary depending upon where you are geographically. Cisco hosts its web content on
a series of mirror servers. This means that Cisco uploads the exact same content to
geographically diverse (spread out all over the world) servers. When someone tries to reach
www.cisco.com, the traffic is directed to the closest mirror server.
Type the IP address that you obtained when you pinged www.cisco.com into a browser.
Does the web site display? Explain.
The Cisco web site does not display. There are at least two possible explanations for this:
1. Some web servers are configured to accept IP addresses sent from a browser and some are
not.
2. It may be a firewall rule in the Cisco security system that prohibits an IP address from being
sent via a browser. Depending on the Web Browser you can also get a message saying the
connection is not secure or there is a certificate error.
Part 2
What is the default DNS server used?
At the nslookup prompt, type www.cisco.com. What is the translated IPv4 address?
184.87.134.107

Is it the same as the IP address shown with the ping command? Yes

Under addresses, in addition to the 172.230.155.162 IP address, there are the following
numbers: 2600:1404:a:395::b33 and 2600:1404:a:38e:::b33. What are these?
IPv6 (IP version 6) IP addresses at which the web site is reachable.
Using the nslookup tool, record the IP addresses associated with www.google.com.
Part 3
A fundamental principle of network design is redundancy (more than one mail server is
configured). In this way, if one of the mail servers is unreachable, then the computer
making the query tries the second mail server. Email administrators determine which
mail server is contacted first by using MX preference. The mail server with the lowest MX
preference is contacted first. Based upon the output above, which mail server will be
contacted first when the email is sent to cisco.com? aer-mx-01.cisco.com

Write the IP addresses of all the DNS servers that your school uses. 192.168.1.1,
192.168.1.101…
What is the fundamental purpose of DNS? DNS basically acts like the phonebook for the
Internet. So DNS translates names to numbers. The numbers can be either IPv4 or IPv6.

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