How to identify the amplificationfactor on wireshark?

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I got a task from school the instructions are as followed.

Put on WireShark.

Open a Command Prompt and give the following command.

nslookup -type=ANY nos.nl

Then typ:

nslookup -type=ANY google.com

Now you can read the responses in WireShark, The amplification factor at NOS-site is 5.

The Question is! How big is the amplification factor from Google.com?

I think its 5 or 6 but i am not sure how to read the amplification factor.

Can someone please explain to me how i can read how big the amplification factor is?

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Joep de Goeij
asked 2023-10-31 14:12:13 +0000
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What's your definition of amplification factor?

Jaap's avatar Jaap (2023-10-31 14:55:18 +0000) edit
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We are not in the habbit of doing your homework. ;-) Jaap pointed out the question you have to answer for yourself in order to understand your assignment.

hugo.vanderkooij's avatar hugo.vanderkooij (2023-11-01 09:49:49 +0000) edit
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i dont know what the amplificationfactor is, thats why is asked how to read it. i will keep doing my homework hahaha.

Joep de Goeij's avatar Joep de Goeij (2023-11-01 10:23:27 +0000) edit
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Well I'm not looking for the value, I'm looking for the definition. Then the answer should be obvious.

Jaap's avatar Jaap (2023-11-01 10:56:08 +0000) edit
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Hi Jaap, The Amplificationfactor is The ratio between the response and the request sizes.

Joep de Goeij's avatar Joep de Goeij (2023-11-01 11:29:15 +0000) edit
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