What can be interesting is to see the route a message you send takes. This can be done from a DOS prompt. It does not work against all servers as some have pinging blocked. Say you want to see how you connected to yahoo you would type "tracert www.yahoo.com" from the DOS prompt. Do not include the "". This will return a list of every server your message went through on its way to yahoo. It will also tell you how long it took to get there. I cannot test yahoo here from work as our firewall blocks pinging. tracert stands for trace route.

Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert & Linda Smith [mailto:Lrsmith@cableone.net]
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 9:19 AM
To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] GC.com

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:

(snip)

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.