Socket Programming--Traceroute Jonathan

Step 1 Turn a hostname into an IP address. Input dest_name and gethostbyname() this funtion will turn hostname into IP address.

Step 2 Create Sockets for connection UDP uses to send data, it requires datagram socket(SOCK_DGRAM). Icmp packets send back datas, it requires raw socket(SOCK_RAW).

Step 3 Set TTL TTL begins with 1 and it will plus one in each loop.Use setsockopt() to set the TTL.

Step 4 Bind sockets and send packets bind() function uses to receive data by the port and hostname store in empty string. sendto() function uses to send empty string to dest_name.

Step 5 Get IP address, Turn IP address and print the data recvfrom() function takes IP address , its block size is 512. And we close the both sockets. After get IP address, I use gethostbyaddr() function to get its hostname, if it doesn’t have hostname, its address equal to its hostname. After I get hostname, printout the data. If curr_addr =None, it will print “*”.

Step 6 Break the loop The loop will stop when curr_addr = dest_name or ttl > max_hops. Then my program will ask you if you want to traceroute another host or not.

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