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127.0.0.1
Computers on the internet verify their connections to other computers using the PING command. All devices on the internet are identified by what is known as an IP address, which consists of four numbers separated by dots, such as 127.0.0.1. However, there is one address that cannot be used by any computer in the world to identify itself on the Internet, and that address is 127.0.0.1.
127.0.0.1 has been reserved as "the loopback address". A loopback address is an address that tells the computer not to test its connections to another computer, but to test its own basic network setup. (From: Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia)
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Simple technique to look at the info Cookies are collecting from you
BS Detector - Type (or use the paste button) a URL of a site and click the start button. Then sit back while the contraption chugs away, fills the B.S. tank, and delivers its verdict. URLs of e-business press releases are great fun to feed into the machine. Just The Text, Ma'am - Jimwich site
The Internet Traffic Archive "The Internet Traffic Archive is a moderated repository to support widespread access to traces of Internet network traffic, sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM. The traces can be used to study network dynamics, usage characteristics, and growth patterns, as well as providing the grist for trace-driven simulations. The archive is also open to programs for reducing raw trace data to more manageable forms, for generating synthetic traces, and for analyzing traces. "
Systematic ping utility "The Internet Traffic Report monitors the flow of data around the world. It then displays a value between zero and 100."
The Surveyor Project "Since the NSFnet program was initiated about ten years ago, the Internet has become an increasingly key enabling technology for the research and education missions of the R&E community around the world. During these years, however, the Internet has grown in complexity to the point where even well-informed Internet users and engineers have a somewhat fuzzy understanding of the topology of the Internet, of the paths taken by their data from one Internet site to another, and of the reliability and performance of those paths. "
