[plug] The world has disappeared

[Kimberly Shelt]

Back in years gone by.. 

When I had problems reaching X site..  the first thing I would do was 

traceroute whateversite
ie
misskim at allmine:~$ traceroute www.google.com
traceroute to www.google.com (216.239.33.99), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  lal-qila.cla (192.168.0.99)  0.363 ms  0.323 ms  0.263 ms
 2  dialup.pacific.net.au (203.9.190.192)  154.429 ms  137.199 ms  139.992 ms
 3  f0-0-1.per001.pacific.net.au (203.100.248.249)  139.844 ms  147.177 ms  159.926 ms

blah blah :)

I have seen a number of questions on the list that "to me" would
have been greatly helped if the person did the trace first ?

Am I missing something here ? 
Do most people no longer think traceroute is a valid networking detection tool ?

Thanks
Kim
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