1. "1. Briefly describe what traceroute does and how it is useful (you may find articles on traceroute in sources such as Wikipedia useful).

2. Use traceroute to trace the route from your home or work computer to your universitys website. Show the traceroute output. What networks were encountered along the way? What information about the geographic locations of the routers can you infer from the trace? What was the longest mean delay on any one hop along the way?

3. Use traceroute to trace the route from your home or work computer to the website of a university or company on another continent. Show the traceroute output. What networks were encountered along the way? What information about the geographic locations of the routers can you infer from the trace? What was the longest mean delay on any one hop along the way? What factors do you think caused this delay?"