Thanks Bill,
I don't think I have a DOS prompt with Win XP but will look around some
more.
Bob Smith
Atherton, Bill (AZ15) wrote:
> 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.
>>
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