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Thanks for your reply, David.<br><br>
I don't know what may lie between the last accessible IP (74.202.159.238)
and my target IP (168.244.164.134). Isn't that the purpose behind
(dynamic) routing? An end user doesn't need to know the route to their
destination.<br><br>
I assume a "real" OS == linux. I'll try tcptraceroute on my
linux box when I get home Sunday evening.<br><br>
When you say I need a baseline to go from. what do you mean?<br><br>
The only real information I have is that I need to connect my browser to
<a href="http://www.myloweslife.com/" eudora="autourl">
www.myloweslife.com</a> and that attempt fails. I tried tracert in
order to try to determine what was going on behind the scenes. Obviously,
that form of troubleshooting is (no longer) reasonable.<br><br>
Do you have any suggestions on how to figure out why I may not be able to
browse to that site? HR tells me there shouldn't be a problem and claims
nobody else has connection problems. I'm stumped.<br><br>
~Rick<br><br>
At 6/14/2013 11:53 PM, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hey Rick,<br><br>
This depends. Do you know where the IP is you're trying to reach in
relation to the last IP shown?<br><br>
It is common today for clueless admins to block ping packets (M$ uses
ping vice UDP packets for tracing). You might also be hitting
transit routes for the last hop or two. These transit routes are
private IPs that can't respond back to you, but do pass packets through
(those that haven't reached their TTL/hop limit).<br><br>
So there may be no "block" to get past. You really do
need to have a baseline to go from. Try using a tcp trace (a la
tcptraceroute), they usually have less problems, but you'll need a real
OS for that.<br><br>
Ciao,<br><br>
David A. Bandel<br><br>
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On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Rick Bowers
<<a href="mailto:rwbowers@gmail.com">rwbowers@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<dd>Off-topic question, but I know there is expertise here on this
list.<br><br>
<dd>I've been trying to connect to
<a href="http://www.myloweslife.com">www.myloweslife.com</a> but the
site<br>
<dd>continually times out. I've tried multiple times over the past
week<br>
<dd>with no success.<br><br>
<dd>I tried running a tracert (Windows version of traceroute)
several<br>
<dd>times and seem to always time out at the same point. (output
below)<br><br>
<dd>I'm not sure exactly what this means, or who to contact to get
past<br>
<dd>the "block".<br><br>
<dd>- Does this indicate a broken route? Down system?<br>
<dd>- Can I contact someone to help? Who? My ISP (Verizon<br>
<dd>FIOS)? <a href="http://twtelecom.net">twtelecom.net</a> (Time
Warner)?<br><br>
<dd>C:\>tracert
<a href="http://myloweslife.com">myloweslife.com</a><br><br>
<dd>Tracing route to <a href="http://myloweslife.com">myloweslife.com</a>
[168.244.164.134]<br>
<dd>over a maximum of 30 hops:<br><br>
<dd> 1 2 ms 3
ms 3<br>
<dd>ms
<a href="http://Wireless_Broadband_Router.somewhereunknown.net">
Wireless_Broadband_Router.somewhereunknown.net</a> [192.168.1.1]<br>
<dd> 2 5 ms 5
ms 5 ms
<a href="http://L100.BSTNMA-VFTTP-77.verizon-gni.net">
L100.BSTNMA-VFTTP-77.verizon-gni.net</a><br>
<dd>[98.110.224.1]<br>
<dd> 3 8 ms 10
ms 9<br>
<dd>ms
<a href="http://G0-14-2-6.BSTNMA-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net">
G0-14-2-6.BSTNMA-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net</a> [130.81.217.110]<br>
<dd> 4 6 ms 5
ms 6 ms
<a href="http://ae0-0.BOS-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net">
ae0-0.BOS-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net</a><br>
<dd>[130.81.209.94]<br>
<dd> 5 22 ms 22
ms 22 ms
<a href="http://0.xe-10-0-0.XL2.IAD8.ALTER.NET">
0.xe-10-0-0.XL2.IAD8.ALTER.NET</a> [152.63.7.61]<br>
<dd> 6 22 ms 22
ms 22 ms
<a href="http://0.xe-11-1-0.GW12.IAD8.ALTER.NET">
0.xe-11-1-0.GW12.IAD8.ALTER.NET</a><br>
<dd>[152.63.35.126]<br>
<dd> 7 23 ms 22
ms 24 ms
<a href="http://twtelecom-gw.customer.alter.net">
twtelecom-gw.customer.alter.net</a><br>
<dd>[152.179.50.186]<br>
<dd> 8 41 ms 40
ms 42 ms
<a href="http://gso1-ar1-xe-2-0-0-0.us.twtelecom.net">
gso1-ar1-xe-2-0-0-0.us.twtelecom.net</a><br>
<dd>[66.192.241.46]<br>
<dd> 9 42 ms 42
ms 43 ms
<a href="http://74-202-159-238.static.twtelecom.net">
74-202-159-238.static.twtelecom.net</a><br>
<dd>[74.202.159.238]<br>
<dd> 10
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Request timed out.<br>
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Request timed out.<br><br>
<dd>Trace complete.<br><br>
<dd>C:\><br><br>
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