[plug] The world has disappeared

[Steve Boak]

On Monday 25 August 2003 22:03, Kimberly Shelt wrote:
> 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

You are quite right, but this time when ping didn't work because it 
couldn't resolve the IP address, traceroute wouldn't have worked 
either. It's quite interesting to run traceroute for fun to see where 
your packets are actually going. Sometimes the route is bizzare!

Trouble is, these days it appears my ISP blocks it, and I never get 
any further than:

[root at neddy steve]# traceroute -n westnet.com.au
traceroute to westnet.com.au (203.10.1.20), 30 hops max, 38 byte 
packets
 1  192.168.1.253  0.416 ms  0.316 ms  0.310 ms
 2  202.72.191.217  118.471 ms  119.909 ms  120.002 ms
 3  202.72.191.193  119.929 ms  119.924 ms  119.978 ms
 4  * * *
 5  * * *
 6  * * *
 7  * * *
 8  * * *
 9  * * *
10  * * *
11  * * *
12  * * *
13  * * *
14  * * *
15  *
etc

Steve

-- 
'What is worth doing and what is worth having?'
I would like to say simply this.
"It is worth doing nothing and having a rest."