Title: Chapter 15 Hands-On Lab DropBox
Course: DEPT MC - PERSONAL COMPUTER HARDWARE > Section: Module 5 (Chapters 14, 15, 17, 18)

Q: On your NCTC class PC, type ipconfig and ENTER. Record your subnet mask.

Q: On your NCTC class PC, type ipconfig and ENTER. What is the connection specific DNS address?

Q: On your NCTC class PC, type ipconfig /all. What is the difference in the information that is returned?

Q: On your classroom PC, what is your PC hostname?

Q: On your NCTC class PC, with ipconfig /all command, record your MAC address.

Q: On your NCTC class PC, type ping 127.0.0.1. What happens? WHY?

Q: On your NCTC class PC, ping www.nctc.edu. What address is returned? Now, ping www.unt.edu, and www.twu.edu. What happens with each? Record the IP address for each campus.

Q: On your NCTC class PC, run the tracert command for www.unt.edu. How many hops before it times out? How many possible hops? Record the second hop.

Q: What commands do you key in to refresh your IP address?

Q: On your NCTC class PC, key in the nslookup yourcomputerhostname and hit ENTER. What server name is returned?

Q: On your NCTC class PC, type net help. What kind of information is returned? What kinds of task are performed with the net command?

Q: On your NCTC class PC, type net user. What accounts exist on your classroom PC?

Q: On your NCTC class PC, type the nbtstat -a command. Record the NETBIOS name returned.

Q: On your NCTC class PC, type nbtstat -r. How is this different from the previous command of nbtstat -n?

Q: On your NCTC class PC, type netstat. What kind of information is returned? Cut and paste the return.

Q: On your NCTC class PC, type netstat >>MYnetlog.txt. What happens? What DOS commands would you use to search for that file? Where IS the file stored? (what directory)