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.