Department of Mathematics

Math 300: Mathematical Computing

URL ICE

  1. If you use firefox, visit about:config, If you use chrome, visit chrome://about. If you use safari, just look at what Steve wanted you to look at.
  2. Visit file:///. What is that about?
  3. Visit http://math.wsu.edu
  4. Visit http://www.sci.wsu.edu/math. What do you notice?
  5. Visit http://www.math.wsu.edu:80. Does this look familiar?
  6. Visit http://www.math.wsu.edu:81.
  7. Visit http://134.121.45.19 and http://134.121.45.19/math . Obviously, we have just found several ways to contact the same computer, with different sites according to how we specify the URL.
  8. Find the name of the computer 134.121.45.19.
  9. Find the IP address of www.sci.wsu.edu.
  10. Visit https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 What is the ? about? How about the https?
  11. Visit whatismyipaddress.com. Enter the address 134.121.139.10 in the text box. Explain.
  12. Visit traceroute.org
















Department of Mathematics, PO Box 643113, Neill Hall 103, Washington State University, Pullman WA 99164-3113, 509-335-3926, Contact Us
Copyright © 1996-2020 Kevin Cooper