a timeout in a traceroute doesn't necessarily mean his connectivity is a
problem, maybe it could be as simple as the device configured not to respond
to icmp.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alvin Oga
Sent: Thursday, 14 March 2002 10:46
To: Josh Welch
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Traceroute question
hi ya josh
i'd say... get a new t1 from a different isp...
especially if your network seems slow to connect to other
websites/emails/etc
i dont like "timeouts" from traceroutes
especially intermittent ones like yours..
c ya
alvin
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Josh Welch wrote:
> This is somewhat off topic, but I'm getting really frustrated, and it
seems
> like a knowledgeable bunch here.
> We have a site on a cable modem, they are on a provider called Fuse, which
> is owned by Zoomtown. We have been trying to hit our mailserver without
> success from that site. From this same site we are able to hit our web
> server, which is on the same subnet as the mail server. I did a traceroute
> from the site and came up with what you see below. XO is our T1 provider,
> and I have talked with them. They say the problem lies in the Zoomtown
> network. Zoomtown has been less than helpful. I am curious to get anyone's
> opinion here on this matter.
>
> Thanks
> Josh
>
> Tracing route to mail.buffalowildwings.com over a maximum of 30 hops:
> 1 10 ms 10 ms 20 ms 216.196.234.229
> 2 10 ms 10 ms 20 ms 216.68.30.25
> 3 10 ms 10 ms 20 ms WS-GSR-1-pos2-0-oc12.zoomtown.com
> 4 10 ms 20 ms 10 ms 192.168.8.11
> 5 40 ms 20 ms 430 ms 192.168.0.5
> 6 * * * Request timed out.
> 7 20 ms 20 ms 30 ms P6-0.a0.chcg.broadwing.net
> 8 * * * Request timed out.
> 9 30 ms 30 ms 40 ms aads.px.concentric.net
> 10 20 ms 30 ms 20 ms ge5-3-1.RAR2.Chicago-IL.us.xo.net
> 11 * * * Request timed out.
> 12 * * * Request timed out.
> 13 * * * Request timed out.
> 14 * * * Request timed out.
> etc, etc, etc
> 30 * * * Request timed out.
> Trace complete.
>
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