when i send an email or something, is this how it travels.
1. goes to my isp gateway router
2. takes hops to different central isp locations.
3. reaches destination.
2007-06-25 14:27:50 · 6 answers · asked by photo 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
1. Sent from your IP to the SMTP Server of your ISP
2. Sent from your ISP Server to other Central Mail Servers throuout the world
3. Delivered to Destination PoP3 Server
4. Recipiant retrieves email.
2007-06-26 13:56:07 · answer #1 · answered by Taba 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Close:
For email:
It goes to your ISP router then to their store and forward mail server on your ISP. Then it sends it to the destination email post office server.
For files and other junk, your ISP router is connected to an Internet backbone. There it can go several different ways, through many other routers and switches to the destination ISP router to the fileserver or workstation that contains the file you requested. The "inbetween" is called the "cloud" because you dont care how it gets to the destination and it isn't the same every time.
2007-06-25 21:35:38 · answer #2 · answered by james hart 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Almost.. it
3. reaches destination SERVER
4. Is retrieved by end user.
(Who also may be through multi hops)
2007-06-25 21:31:53 · answer #3 · answered by Tracy L 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
do a trace route. open a command line window (Start, Run, cmd) and type tracert www.yahoo.com. that will show you how many hops it takes to get from you to yahoo.
2007-06-25 21:32:08 · answer #4 · answered by cda94 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
step 2 is: scans for server
2007-06-25 21:31:54 · answer #5 · answered by natman3400 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sort of, yeah.
2007-06-25 21:30:34 · answer #6 · answered by snvffy 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋