[UPHPU] access server in Utah from Singapore

[Brandon Stout]

Daniel C. wrote:
> On 1/18/07, Brandon Stout <bms at mscis.org> wrote:
>>   traceroute msn.com
>
> Tracing route to msn.com [207.68.172.246]
> over a maximum of 30 hops:
>
> <snip lots of hops that work fine>
>
> 12     *       18 ms     *     74.40.3.150
> 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
>
> <snip a handfull of hops that timed out>
>
> This still gives us some information - the traceroute starts to die at
> 74.40.3.150.  Surely this is useful information?  I used to use
> traceroute to troubleshoot network connections all the time.

Daniel,

Not terribly useful information since MSN.com works just fine for web,
email, telnet, and ssh.  That tells us that some server(s) from hop 13
block icmp, and that's it.

Brandon Stout
http://mscis.org