Brian,

What an interesting web site.  I have book marked it and will check it 
from time to time.  Not that I know just what all I am looking at.

Do you have a suggestion for a sniffer like you mentioned that will look 
at the route I am taking when I hook up to someone.  Just interested, a 
little.  And where does one look up, if possible, the DNS tables??

Thank, Bob Smith, Petite Elite

Brian - Team A.I. wrote:

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Fairbanks, AK router, check 
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm.  Basically, the 
routers you see listed are the mother of all routers and are 
collectively responsible for the entire N American continent.  I'm 
guessing the people in Alaska are pretty pissed right about now.

> DNS:  Domain Name System.  Ever wonder what's behind yahoo.com?  For 
> every single web address on the internet, there is a numerical IP 
> address associated with it.  The primary IP address for yahoo.com is 
> 66.218.71.198.  Would you rather remember yahoo.com or that numerical 
> address?  :)  DNS tables do the job of matching those numbers to their 
> corresponding domain name (yahoo.com).  If a DNS tables becomes 
> 'poisoned', it pretty much means that some corrupt data was inserted 
> into the file and completely scrambled the data, rendering it useless.
>